OS X Won't boot |
December, 14, 2002 6:36 PM |
gordner |
Maybe similar issues have already been covered. My system is: 8500/120, 504 MB RAM, Sonnet G4/800, ACARD 66, WD Caviar 100 GB JB, WD Expert 17 GB. Radeon 7000 PCI, Yamaha CRW 8424, USB PCI Card. ACARD has the latest firmware 3.21. Target volume for OS X is the the first partition of the Caviar, 7 GB. Post facto 2.2.4 runs fine, but upon reboot I only get a few spins of the CD and a black screen. Already tried with the stock CD-ROM and pulling the USB card, but no change. I'm running OS 9.2.2, but also have one partition with OS 9.1 on the WD Expert. However the startup OS makes no difference. Any clues out there? |
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RE: OS X Won't boot |
December, 28, 2002 3:41 AM |
gordner |
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All solved. On my first run of OS 10.1 the software updater installed the latest security update, unfortunately one too late (for OS 10.1.5). I finally had to download and install the correct security update for OS 10.1. After that all went fine. Funny that the software updater installs the wrong version... |
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RE: OS X Won't boot |
December, 21, 2002 9:53 PM |
powderhaus |
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You probably can't update the system because you need the installer update and that will not install untill you get a security update. This happend to me going from 10.1 to 10.1.5 with the combo update. |
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RE: OS X Won't boot |
December, 21, 2002 6:42 PM |
dcoyle |
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I wish I had seen this thread earlier - sorry. Try XPF 2.2.1 and I'll bet it works fine. |
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RE: OS X Won't boot |
December, 21, 2002 2:21 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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I've use the Radeon PCI since 10.03. Works fine. Marty |
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RE: OS X Won't boot |
December, 21, 2002 12:19 AM |
joevt |
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I don't have any idea why you can't update to 10.1.5 but I think you should at least personally test your Radeon card with the existing OS (never believe what someone else says if you can try it for yourself) First, in OS X with your XClaim card, download and install the latest ATI drivers (Oct 2002), shutdown your computer, replace the XClaim with the Radeon, hold the option key to boot into OS 9, run XPostFacto, set the output-device to ATY,RV100ad_A, and restart into OS X. I didn't have any problem with my Radeon 7000 in an 8600 after OS X was installed using built-in video. I think I had it running before 10.2 but I don't remember if I tried anything earlier than 10.1.5. |
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RE: OS X Won't boot - sucess, but... |
December, 18, 2002 5:03 AM |
gordner |
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Writing this email now under OS 10.1. Could finally install OS 10.1 by pulling the Radeon and pluging in my old XClaim. I read in a previous thread that version prior to 10.1.5 don't support the Radeon. Also the installation could only be done with my stock CR-ROM, not the Yamaha CRW 8424. The problem now is that I can't upgrade to 10.1.5. Although my configuration should be o.k. (1st partition, under 8 GB, set as Master Drive), the upgrade installers show my OS X disk dimmed, so that they can't be selected. Thus I can't upgrade to 10.1.5 and can't use my Radeon... Anyone know what to do? Funny is I bought the Radeon from OWC just for running OS X... |
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RE: OS X Won't boot |
December, 18, 2002 1:49 AM |
joevt |
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Did you try using only built-in video? I don't remember getting those kinds of errors when installing using a Radeon 7000 on my 8600 but it seemed that the install would not be successful unless I used built-in video. |
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RE: OS X Won't boot |
December, 15, 2002 6:47 AM |
gordner |
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Well. At least got one step farther now. Selected keyboard as input and my video card as output device. Increased the throttle to 14 and booted in verbose mode. This got me my video during start-up. 1st attempt with my Yamaha CRW 8424: stalled waiting for root device. 2nd attempt with my stock CD-ROM: this worked, as now files were copied to the HD. However the installation stopped with the following error messages: kCG Error Failure: CSG New Connection cannot connect to server. kCG Error Invalid Connection: CGS Get Even Port: Invalid Connection. The installer has unexpectedly quit (error 1). 3 restarts with the same result... |
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RE: OS X Won't boot |
December, 14, 2002 9:00 PM |
powderhaus |
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Try using verbose mode. it will make a lot of text run on the screen then stop. copy what is left on the screen and send it put it in here. Your CD drives might be the problem. If you have an extra partition that is not the target volume you can use Apple Software Restore to put the CD on a hard drive partition. I think that you have to tell it to reformat the volume when you do it, but i am not sure. Then continue as you would with the CD |