[Darwin]Â 6.0.1 not recognized by XpostFacto |
September, 28, 2002 12:03 PM |
aurejac |
Hi from France everybody, first thank to Ryan Rempel for his work ;-) I get a strange behaviour of XpostFacto when trying to boot and install from the last Darwin CD on my 7500/G3 (on which 10.2 works flawlessly). It doesn't recognize the Darwin CD as bootable and says me, when I switch "Start MacOS X from" to the darwin CD : "Darwin" is not writable It tried to dupe XpostFacto, by putting a 10.2 CD rom and say to boot from it and install to my SCSI drive, then when it rebooted I swapped the CD with the darwin one ;-) It seemed to work a bit, as I could clearly hear that the darwin CD was read, but it stayed on the greay apple logo. So, this is where I stand, a this point.. Gilles |
. |
RE: [Darwin]Â 6.0.1 not recognized by XpostFacto |
September, 29, 2002 8:33 PM |
OSXGuru |
. |
I've done some testing now, and it looks like there are two problems. The first problem is that the layout of the CD changed slightly, and XPostFacto wasn't realizing that it was an install CD. Your workaround solved that, and I can fix it easily enough. However, it seems that BootX is in fact reporting an error condition--it is running out of memory when loading kernel extensions. I can probably fix this too, but it will be a little trickier. |
. |
RE: [Darwin]Â 6.0.1 not recognized by XpostFacto |
September, 29, 2002 9:06 AM |
aurejac |
. |
> I haven't tested the Darwin 6 installation procedure yet--I guess I should! Oh, don't lose your weekend on it like me (I don't have a life ;-)) > It sounds like BootX is reaching an error condition of some kind, and you probably have the > Apple version of BootX installed, rather than the custom XPostFacto version. So you may get > a little further if you reboot into Mac OS 9, and then use XPostFacto to reinstall BootX (and > perhaps reinstall the extensions while you're at it, just in case). Well it seems I have on my dawrin partition the same BootX that is on my OS X partition (after installation by XPF of course). They have the same size and date modifications. And I manually re-installed extensions on my darwin partition. Bytheway Darwin 6.0.1 boots (after the epic installaiton I described ;-) ), but I don't even know if my keyboard responds because it's impossible to boot in verbose mode, I always get the apple logo, not the blank text on black screen as I expect. |
. |
RE: [Darwin]Â 6.0.1 not recognized by XpostFacto |
September, 28, 2002 4:07 PM |
OSXGuru |
. |
I haven't tested the Darwin 6 installation procedure yet--I guess I should! It sounds like BootX is reaching an error condition of some kind, and you probably have the Apple version of BootX installed, rather than the custom XPostFacto version. So you may get a little further if you reboot into Mac OS 9, and then use XPostFacto to reinstall BootX (and perhaps reinstall the extensions while you're at it, just in case). |
. |
Installation worked RE: [Darwin]Â 6.0.1 not recogn |
September, 28, 2002 3:13 PM |
aurejac |
. |
Some bit progress : Ihave installed Darwin 6.01, but not yet make it boot and use. As I said, I can boot on the darwin CD, by telling XpostFacto to boot on a OSX install CD and swap to a Darwin CD when my computer restart. The only thing I haven't done the first time was to select "verbose mode" in Xpostfacto menu, so that I didn't have the apple logo at startup and could continue the installation. The installation gone fine, and at the present I am trying to make it boot, because even holding command-v at startup I can't get in verbose mode, I only have the grey apple logo, I heard the disk scratching, and a minute after I get a crossed-circle on the screen |
|
|