Crash and Freeze During Installer |
February, 04, 2003 3:40 AM |
ironhawk |
OK. I have only the Sonnet G4 800 and Tempo ATA 133 cards installed in my S900, and am now able to make it to the OS X Installer. At such a point though, the installer either freezes, or I get a message telling me the installer has quit and to restart my computer, with an exit code 0 or 1. This happens whether i am using XPostFacto or Sonnet's PCI X Install, tho, admittedly, XPostFacto got me the further of the two, by a long shot, due, I believe, to throttle control. I had installed X to the IDE drive via my friend's iMac, along with Sonnet's X Tue-Up software, for the proper extensions to enable it to run on my machine. XPostFacto would get me to the blue screen, but then X would freeze from there, so i erased it, and am now attempting a fresh install. This is really beginning to piss me off. Any help is greatly appreciated. -Antonio |
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RE: Crash and Freeze During Installer |
February, 15, 2003 9:37 PM |
dklaus |
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When you say 'Freeze' during install what are your symptoms? I am trying an install on my PM9600 (Mach V) w Newer G3/500. My first try at running the install did not complete, it was towards the end of the install step (judging by the progress bar) and had been at 'About 1 minute' to go for an hour when I aborted the install. Did I not give it long enough or ?? |
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RE: Crash and Freeze During Installer |
February, 05, 2003 9:04 PM |
mcolley |
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I had the same problem over and over. Finally, out of desperation I choose the "clean install" option in the installer. Afterwhich, the installer made it through the process. However, the new system folder now did not have the patches installed by the Sonnet installer, so it crashed upon reboot..to be expected. I then rebooted back into OS9 , removed the Sonnet patches from the old system extensions folder, and manually installed them into the new system's extension folder, restarted and success! I would think this method will work well with upgrades to either Sonnet X or XpostFacto. In some ways it's similar to manually installing components in OS9. It's a matter of starting the latest OSX patch install (onto a partition) and then opening the folders to see where they are installed, thereby telling you where they are to go in your current system folder. Worked for me after 4 hours of frustration. Marshall |
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RE: Crash and Freeze During Installer |
February, 04, 2003 10:59 AM |
ken882 |
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ironhawk, You could be having a memory problem. Check the thread titled "OS X and 'bad' memory" for details. I've had limited success in removing some of my DIMMs. You might want to try the same at least to see if it stops the freezes during the installation process. If this gets you through the install process, at least you know you have a memory issue, and that the rest of your system configuration is O.K. I get memory-related freezes in about 50% of my installation attempts. |
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RE: Crash and Freeze During Installer |
February, 04, 2003 9:22 AM |
egonzales21 |
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What option did you select for installation? If you chose erase and install, the drive was repartitioned and the Xpostfacto extensions are then erased. |
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RE: Crash and Freeze During Installer |
February, 04, 2003 3:42 AM |
ironhawk |
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Forgot to mention....using XPostFacto, the installer freezes after preparing the hard drive partition for installation, during the preparation of the OS X filesystem, while Sonnet's software freezes at the very beginning, while the installer is prepping for installation. -Antonio |