XPF unable to restart the system to install 10.2 |
September, 15, 2002 4:48 AM |
Hammi |
Hi, there ! Several weeks ago I tried to get help here to fix a severe problem with the administrator privileges after updating to 10.1.5, but none of the tips worked for me. So for now my last hope to get back a clean working OS X - system is to upgrade it to Jaguar 10.2. But with my Jaguar-Install-CDs and the latest version of XPF a new problem accours : XPF seems to be unable to do the "magic" reset under 9.1 after copying the kernel-extensions to my OS X - partition, which leads into the installation process from the Jaguar-Install-CDs. When I try to do a manual reset from the system-menu, a message appears telling that the reset process has already been initiated and that I should wait until the machine restarts. But nothing restarts. :-( So I tried to use Darwin's SystemDisk - application to select the Jaguar-Boot-CD and did a keyboard-reset. Then something strange happend : A gray background with the dark-gray Apple logo appeard. But lots of the pixels displaying this logo were distorted and nothing further happed, no spinning mousepointer, no activity from the CD-ROM-drive, the system simply hangs. Luckily it was possible to get back to 9.1 while pressing "c"-key during a further reset and using the 9.1-CD. My system is a PowerMac 7300 with Sonnet Crescendo G3/500, ATI Rage Pro PCI-card from a blue/white G3 and a Belkin USB/Firewire- combo-card. Any ideas what I could do the get into the Jaguar-installation- process ? Best regards, Marcus |
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: XPF unable to restart the system to install 10.2 |
September, 19, 2002 9:21 PM |
OSXGuru |
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The "distorted logo" sounds like there was a kernel panic, and the panic text wasn't printed properly over the graphic. If you had held down command-v for verbose mode at boot time, you might have got readable panic text. (And one would expect a kernel panic when trying to set up the install with System Disk, because the drivers needed for booting older systems aren't on the CD, and System Disk doesn't know how to work around that). The other question is why XPostFacto was unable to restart your system. What XPostFacto does is send a "Restart" apple event to the Finder--so it is the Finder that actually does the work of restarting. But it sounds as though something is interfering with that process. Do you have any software that might try to do something at shutdown time? Perhaps a virus checker, or disk utility, or something like that? If so, perhaps XPostFacto is incompatible with it in some way--I could check into that if you have an idea which application it might be. |
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