X10.2 on a 9500 |
January, 13, 2003 8:05 PM |
fano |
I have a PowerMac 9500 with a SonnetG4/800 Upgrade card. I installed 512 of new ram. I upgraded to a Radeon 7000 Mac Edition video card. I have been trying to install 10.2 on the first 8 GB of a 80 GB WD drive attached to a SIIG UltraATA 133/100 Pro card(slot 1). The installation gets to the last minute and then the computer stops and says I need to restart my computer. On a few occasions I have completed the first disc but the computer never reboots. I now have 9.1 (base only, no unnecessay extions)on the 80 GB WD. I have switched to trying to install 10.2 onto the original Seagate SCSI 2 GB. Again the install completes the first disc and reboots but a quick message flashes at the top and reads "CGSF.invalid destination port. flush failed." The message lasts only a few seconds and then a black screen. I have overcome many of the same problems that others have had. I have tried adjusting the throttle to different settings. I have tried different hard drives. I have actually loaded 10.2 at work so I know the installation disks are OK. Any ideas would be appreciated. I have also tried the Sonnet PCI install but the computer locks up and I have to literally take it apart and put it back together. I have gotten the farthest with XPostFacto. Thanks |
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RE: X10.2 on a 9500 |
January, 16, 2003 10:06 PM |
takabumi.kosaka |
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Which version of XPF do you use ? My experience is, 2.2.4 has no problem in booting, but with 2.2.5x, my 9500 did not boot when I tried. This is not related to installing 10.2, so just FYI. |
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RE: X10.2 on a 9500 |
January, 16, 2003 3:41 PM |
swoup1213 |
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When I installed 10.2 on my 9500 everything appears to be going smooth. The Disk 1 installer finished and had me restart. The 9500 froze and I had to force restart the machine. After restarting it booted from my OSX drive and asked for Disk 2. I'm happily running OSX 10.2.2, haven't thought about updating to 10.2.3 because there seems to be some issues with it, from what I've read here. |
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RE: X10.2 on a 9500 |
January, 16, 2003 3:41 PM |
swoup1213 |
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When I installed 10.2 on my 9500 everything appears to be going smooth. The Disk 1 installer finished and had me restart. The 9500 froze and I had to force restart the machine. After restarting it booted from my OSX drive and asked for Disk 2. I'm happily running OSX 10.2.2, haven't thought about updating to 10.2.3 because there seems to be some issues with it, from what I've read here. |
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RE: X10.2 on a 9500 |
January, 16, 2003 3:41 PM |
swoup1213 |
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When I installed 10.2 on my 9500 everything appears to be going smooth. The Disk 1 installer finished and had me restart. The 9500 froze and I had to force restart the machine. After restarting it booted from my OSX drive and asked for Disk 2. I'm happily running OSX 10.2.2, haven't thought about updating to 10.2.3 because there seems to be some issues with it, from what I've read here. |
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RE: X10.2 on a 9500 |
January, 16, 2003 8:46 AM |
fano |
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Thanks for the suggestions. I removed some old ram and left the 4 new 128 meg ram in because I was getting a message "Panic(cpu 0): thread-invoke: preemption_level 1 Latest stack bactrace for cpu 0: (alot of numbers here) Proceeding back via exception chain (alot of numbers here again) Kernel version: Darwin kernel Version 6.0: Sat Jul 27 13:18:52 PDT 2002;root:xnu/xnu-344.06;` 1/Release-PPC Debugger (panic) ethernet MACaddress:00:00:00:00:00:00 ip address:0.0.0.0. Waiting for remote debugger connection Option Continue Reboot" Typing either option resulted in a hang up I upgraded the firmware on the Acard and started the install all over again fresh. It got to the last minute and then the screen went black and said that the installer had quit due to an error and that I should reboot. This is where I am at know. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Thank You |
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RE: X10.2 on a 9500 |
January, 14, 2003 6:30 PM |
marcush |
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Thanks for the correction. It's been a while since I installed 10.2 so the details had gotten fuzzy. |
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RE: X10.2 on a 9500 |
January, 14, 2003 5:56 PM |
joevt |
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Disk 2 is not a startup disk. The installer is attempting to restart to your newly installed OS X system on the hard drive so that is what you have to select in XPostFacto. Leave disk 1 in the CD-ROM drive, tell XPostFacto to boot from your hard drive, select Install Extensions and BootX, and press XPostFacto's restart button. If it boots successfully it will ask you to insert disk 2. If there is a problem booting, then you might consider replacing the Radeon 7000 with the original video card and try rebooting into OS X again. If that doesn't work then try re-installing OS X using the original video card. Make sure you have the latest firmware for your SIIG card (get it from the ACARD web site). Did you install with the default "Install Mac OS X" option or the "Erase and Install" option? I think if you use the default option (and don't repartition the drive from the Installer) then you don't need to run XPostFacto again after the installer restarts to install the extensions and BootX because they would still be there after the install (I haven't checked that recently so I might be wrong). |
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RE: X10.2 on a 9500 |
January, 13, 2003 9:42 PM |
marcush |
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You have to boot back into OS9, insert disk two, reboot into OSX with XpostFacto by choosing disk 2 as the startup. That's what I did. It's not really a problem. That's just the way the installer behaves. |