9500 XLR8 G3 won't nstall OS 10.1 |
December, 04, 2002 11:34 PM |
davidwe |
I have been unable, after several days trying, to install 10.1 on my 9500/G3-350 with an Adaptec 29160N ultra SCSI,18gig Seagate Cheetah and VooDoo3 video card. After going through the usual setup choices with XPF 2.2.4, the machine reboots and either shows a broken mac icon or goes into the verbose mode (not instructed to do so by me either through menu choices or command-v). The final message in the verbose mode is "can't open disc label package, can't open pci1/ADPT,29160N/@0. Through open firmware, I get the message: "can't open default catch, code=FFF00300. I have been successful in using XPF to set up an 8500 without difficulty. I presume the problem as indicated by the verbose mode message relates to the Adaptec card. At the moment, I'm lost for a solution. All help will be greatly appreciated. |
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RE: 9500 XLR8 G3 won't nstall OS 10.1 |
December, 31, 2002 1:59 AM |
gordner |
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Have you downloaded the security update? I also couldn't upgrade to 10.1.5. This was because the software updater downloaded the wrong security update (for 10.1.5). This update virtually locks your discs. So go and download the security update for OS 10.1. After installing this update, you should be able to use the 10.1.5 combo updater. |
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RE: 9500 XLR8 G3 won't install OS 10.1 |
December, 31, 2002 12:08 AM |
davidwe |
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Now, I've got OS X 10.1 installed. I had forgotten to flash the firmware on the 29160N. I also had to install from the external SCSI bus using a Yamaha CD-RW device. (Contrary to advice and my logic) All has gone well until I applied the security update - 7-18-02 (if I remember correctly). Now the dock is invisible and nothing I do will bring it back. It won't let me do the 10.5.1 combo upgrade - it just refuses to do anything after I enter my password. I've done several clean installs with the same result. Any on wit similar problems??? |
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RE: 9500 XLR8 G3 won't nstall OS 10.1 |
December, 26, 2002 7:46 PM |
OSXGuru |
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The "can't open pci1/ADPT,29160N/@0:6" basically means that Open Firmware is having trouble talking to your hard drive, for some reason. Though in some cases you must be getting farther than this, since the "waiting for root device" message would come later (and would indicate problems talking to your CD-ROM device, which is presumably on a different SCSI bus). Unfortunately, you've already tried several of the things I would have suggested--I can't think of anything else at the moment. |
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RE: 9500 XLR8 G3 won't nstall OS 10.1 |
December, 15, 2002 6:57 PM |
davidwe |
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Still no joy after several days of trying. A correction from my first post:it should have read "can't open pci1/ADPT,29160N/@0:6" I have turned on only base extensions, put in the original ATI Mach64 card, removed a USB/Firewire card (Macally), and installed a SCSI drive formatted by Apple drive setup (which had previously had OS X 10.1 successfully installed in an 8500. This was placed in the internal SCSI chain. The CD-ROM drive is the original Apple drive. All SCSI devices are properly terminated. The last message given in the verbose mode is: "IOCatalogue: oldworld.support.PatchedSCSIDeviceType05 cannot be loaded." This is followed by "Still waiting for root device". What now? |
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RE: 9500 XLR8 G3 won't nstall OS 10.1 |
December, 14, 2002 1:03 AM |
joevt |
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Has anyone tried using a Voodoo card with OS X? If you do a search for "XVoodoo VoodooX" on www.google.com, you'll see one person's attempt to make an OS X Voodoo driver. You'll have to view the cached version to see the mac.com page. The second, up-to-date page says that Jaguar has some built-in basic 2D support for voodoo cards... |
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RE: 9500 XLR8 G3 won't nstall OS 10.1 |
December, 08, 2002 6:53 AM |
timjudym |
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Have you tried a different version of XPF? Try 2.2.2 |
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RE: 9500 XLR8 G3 won't install OS 10.1 |
December, 07, 2002 3:26 PM |
davidwe |
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Unfortunately, the 9500 does not have built-in video. I'll try your other suggestions as soon as I can get a spare drive attached. Thanks. |
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RE: 9500 XLR8 G3 won't nstall OS 10.1 |
December, 07, 2002 7:32 AM |
joevt |
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Does your Voodoo3 work in OS X? Try using only the built-in video anyway until OS X is successfully installed. Maybe there's a problem with the boot-device name that XPostFacto uses (it seems to be missing a partition number after "@0" ?). Try using version 2.2.5b2 of XPostFacto (I don't think 2.2.5b2 works on my 8600 with Sonnet Trio). If that doesn't work, use XPostFacto to install Mac OS X to a SCSI drive connected to the built-in internal SCSI bus. If that works, then do the same again (using the same settings) except when XPostFacto reboots into the OS X Installer, choose to install OS X on the drive connected to the Adaptec card. When the Installer is done and restarts, hold the option key down when you hear the boot chime to boot into OS 9, then run XPostFacto, choose Reinstall BootX and Extensions, select the Adaptec drive and tell XPostFacto to restart. It will probably fail at this point (if not then you're done). So go back to OS 9, run XPostFacto, choose the built-in SCSI drive to start OS X from, select an open-firmware output device (built-in = monitor) and input-device (keyboard), push restart in XPostFacto, run System Preferences in OS X, use the Startup Disk preference pane to select the Adaptec drive, click Save & Restart, hold command-option-o-f during the boot chime to get into open-firmware, then type "printenv boot-device" at the open firmware prompt, and look at the boot-device line that the OS X Startup Disk preference pane saved (everything before /AAPL,ROM which is the default). Write that down. Reboot into OS 9 and compare what you wrote down to what XPostFacto uses when you select the Adaptec drive. After selecting the Adaptec drive in XPostFacto, press the restart button, go into open firmware, type "setenv boot-device" followed by a space and then the boot-device string that the OS X startup disk used and then press return. Then type boot. If it boots into OS X then XPostFacto needs to be fixed. |