Install OSX on 7300, installer boot into installer |
January, 08, 2003 3:20 PM |
pschroeder |
I have a 7300 with a VPower G3 upgrade card 300 Mhz and 500 MB RAM. I have three internal SCSI partitions, 4 GIG, 8 GIG and 8 GIG. I've run the install of Xpostfacto OK but when it goes into the reboot I can't reboot into the OSX installer. With the VPower G3 card installed my 7300 has never hot rebooted. It must always be powered down (hard drives spin down) before it can reboot. So after installing Xpostfacto I had to power down, then startup with the OSX cd in the drive and holding down on the C key. I only get the broken folder symbol and it won't boot past that. Any ideas what I need to do? Is it worth trying to run OSX on the 7300? I thought I'ld give a try to see if I can sync things with my Powerbook G4 400. Phil |
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RE: Install OSX on 7300, SUCCESS |
January, 11, 2003 3:43 PM |
pschroeder |
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I finally succeeded. Not sure what the answer was in the end. I used a different HD. Used an older XPF version and powered up the computer in a different way during the restart. All said and done I'm now running OS X 10.1.5 and evaluating if its worth updgrading all my macs to 10.2 I would sure like to sync some of our files, especially email. Thanks for your help. Phil |
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Install OSX on 7300, installer boot into installer |
January, 09, 2003 4:44 PM |
cschmidt |
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It "SHOULD" reboot by it's self....I'm not sure if it's the Upgrade card or not. Just stay with it. I worked on this puppy and the other one for like a month before I got things smoothed out. I will admit, When I'm working in Photoshop or Printing or Microsoft SW I'm on my 9.2.2 disc partition, when I'm playing, surfing, IM'ing, or mailing stuff I've been using 10.2.3. I started with 10.1 and brought it along from there. One of the things I did wind up doing is re-installing my original 4 GB SCSI Drive on my system. I have a stripped down 9.2.2 system on there. The I have a UW SCSI 18GB drive on the Atto/Apple UL2D UW SCSI PCI card that I bought from OWC. I guess I'm turning into one of the Poster Children for these guys! Great Products and prices. With the XPostFacto 2.2.5b7 I can boot using the Atto Card to the 18 GB drive. Just a few months ago this was thought to be almost impossible! But these guys made it happen. I have 2 partitions on there, one for the 10.2.3 and the other is 9.2.2. The reason I did this is so I could always boot back to a good clean system 9 on the internal SCSI. I have a Belkin USB card, an ATI 7000 Mac Edition Video card, 512MB ram, the UW SCSI Card, and the Sonnet G4-800. All of this stuff I bought through OWC except for the USB card. Benmarking this machine, I am close to the performance of my Dual G4 500 machine at work. The only real slow down is due to the buss speed. My disc benchmark and video benchmarks are right up there. This thing performs like no other 7300 I've seen. So Phil, It IS WORTH IT! Chris |
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RE: Install OSX on 7300, installer boot into insta |
January, 09, 2003 10:11 AM |
pschroeder |
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Chris Thanks so much for your answer. Good to hear its possible to run OSX on a 7300. I tried what you mentioned. According to the Apple specs only the internal HD is terminated on the internal chain. I did go ahead and remove a jumper on a pin named term power on the CDROM. THe computer ran OK but would not boot from the xpostfactor startup. I haven't been through the total xpostfacto process but as I understand it this should happen: 1. Install xpostfacto and it installs files on my selected OSX drive 2. The program automatically restarts. 3. I understand that it should restart from that HD with the OSX install files. 4. I assume it will then complete the total install However my computer when it restarts keeps restarting in my regular OS 9.1 One of the reasons may be because to restart I need to power down the computer until the hard drives spin down and then restart with Ctrl-Apple-start button (this is a quirk that has happened since installing the VPower G3 card). I have tried selecting the OSX designated HD in my OS 9 startup disk control panel but it still won't start up into the OSX installer. I have an ATI Rage Pro Xclaim video card and a USB card. I've tried with all cards out but same results. I am also using OS X 10.0.3 (and upgrade CD to 10.1) I haven't bought 10.2 yet because I want to see if I can successfully get the 7300 to run in 10.1 before purchasing Jaguar. Any further ideas? Phil |
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Install OSX on 7300, installer boot into installer |
January, 08, 2003 6:22 PM |
cschmidt |
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Phil, I worked this through on 3 PM7300's and what I have found is that the SCSI terminators are usually on both the CDROM and the SCSI HD. Which ever is physically at the end of the SCSI Internal chain, have THAT device and ONLY that device terminated. Remove termination from the other device. All things being equal..It should be the CD-Rom that needs termination removed. I have my PM 7300 E-Bay special running 10.2.3 with a Sonnet G4-400 board. My Old Man PM 7300 with a Sonnet G4-800, 512MB Ram, Apple UL2D Atto WideScsi card Booting to a 18 Gig Drive, Radeon ATI 7000 graphics board. I am pleased with BOTH units. Chris |