Can't Boot Since 10.2.2 |
December, 22, 2002 10:08 PM |
bg.gale |
I've got a Umax S900 with a 500 mHz G4 in a Carrier ZIF. It's worked fine with OSX since the beta version, and I had no trouble installing Jaguar with XPF. Everything has worked fine for some time... I updated to 10.2.2, and my Umax freezes with the little 'pinwheel' still spinning (right at the beginning, the black and white one that looks like spokes without a wheel.) Anyhow, I still had Jaguar on 2 other partitions, so I booted OS 9, selected another Jaguar partition with XPF, booted Jaguar, and ran Norton, Disk First Aid and Drive 10 on the 10.2.2 partition. No problems reported, tried booting from it again, and got the same freeze. Tried it with shift key held, same freeze. Tried running Disk Warrior on it from OS9 - no big problems reported, all fixed, still freezes. Did an 'Archive and Install' of Jaguar on the non-bootable partition. Boots fine. Ran all kinds of utilities (including fixing permissions) to be sure. Ran software update again (to 10.2.2) and it freezes again. Just tried software update on one of the other working Jaguar partitions. Updated to 10.2.3 with no problems. Rebooted to a freeze, just like in 10.2.2. I haven't change any hardware or software in some time. I have no cache enabler installed since I had instability with Powerlogix's, and I disabled XLR8's cache enabler some time ago, when it stopped working. Note that my third Jaguar partition (not updated) still boots fine, so I don't suspect a hardware problem unless 10.2.2 has some NEW issues with my installed configuration. All my drivers and firmware are current, and my AHARD RAID gives no indication of trouble in Norton or Drive 10. For the record, my video card is a Radeon with the latest drivers, also. I see someone else here has 10.2.3 working on their S900, so I know it will work. How does this 'throttle' business in XPF work - I haven't messed with it since I don't really know what it does. Should I try a lower numerical value before booting my 10.2.3 partition? Anyone have any other ideas? |
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RE: Can't Boot Since 10.2.2 |
December, 26, 2002 8:33 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Probably the best thing to try would be to hold down the "command-v" keys at startup--that should get you an error message of some kind, rather than just a freeze. Let me know what the error message is. |
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