10.2 startup problems on beige G3 |
November, 02, 2002 5:27 AM |
pcowley |
Hardware: beige G3 with XLR8 G4/500 upgrade. IDE drive, partitioned with first 7Gb used for OS 10.2. Clean install. Previously ran 10.1.5 flawlessly from same partition. 10.2 installation went OK, installer reported no problems. However, it won't start up from the volume. The gray "broken circle" icon appears after about half a second. Starting up in verbose mode shows it gets this far: Opening partition [ide0/@0:6]... HFSInitPartition: ff8d7240 Loading HFS+ file: [\mach_kernel] from ff8d7240. Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from ff8d7240. Opening partition [ide0/@0:7]... HFSInitPartition: ff8d6e40 Loading HFS+ file: [\mach_kernel] from ff8d6e40. Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from ff8d6e40. ...at which point it stops with the broken circle icon. When I start up instead from 10.1.5 on a separate drive, the "10.2" partition no longer shows up as bootable in Startup Disc, though it is bootable according to OS9. Any ideas? I'm losing my hair here! Thanks... |
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RE: 10.2 startup problems on beige G3 |
November, 10, 2002 6:05 PM |
OSXGuru |
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It looks like there is no mach_kernel file in the root directory of your drive. That would explain the error messages you get, as well as what XPostFacto reports. Try starting up from your 10.1.5 drive, and copy the mach_kernel file from the 10.2 CD to the root directory of your 10.2 volume. You'll need to do this with the terminal, and you'll need to use sudo to do it, because the mach_kernel file needs to be owned by root. Something like: cd /Volumes/[Your 10.2 target volume] sudo cp "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install CD 1/mach_kernel" . (But I may be typing these wrong). |
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RE: 10.2 startup problems on beige G3 |
November, 10, 2002 6:05 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Or just install Mac OS X 10.2 again, I guess--the Installer really ought to fix things. |
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RE: 10.2 startup problems on beige G3 |
November, 02, 2002 5:43 AM |
pcowley |
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I forgot to say that Xpostfacto also lists the new 10.2 partition as "Not bootable - Mac OS X is not installed". Why would the 10.2 installer CD create a non-bootable installation?! |