OS 10.2 install fails to REBOOT on a 9500 |
January, 24, 2003 9:46 AM |
fano |
This is my second posting on this forum. I have tried all of the suggestions that were given to me by those that responded the first time. Thank you. I have also tried to gleem some info from the forum. So to reiterate this is what I have: PM 9500: Sonnet G4/800: ATI Radeon 7000 MAC edition video card(with update correction): new 4x128 ram from OWC(removed the old ram). 9.1 is running on a 2 GB SCSI Quantom: 10.2(hopefully) onto a WD 80 GB attached to a SIIG pci card(updated thru ACARD site) in slot 1: the CD rom drive is 8x speed (tried a 4x and a 12x). I have transferred all data except for the operating system to another drive so that there would hopefully be no conflicts. Disk 1 install completes and the reboot results in a gray screen with a dark gray apple in the center with the center of the screen fuzzy from side to side. I have tried rebooting into X using XPF 2.2.5. I selected the designated disk partition(<8 GB) as the startup disk with reinstall extensions and reinstall boot X selected. The result is the following message; "Open Firmware 1.0.5 Continue MacOs type: BYE return Continue default boot type: BOOT return" I typed BOOT return. The following is part of the message that scrolled down the screen. This part repeated twice then" PANIC" load_kernel_extension(): Can't get dependencies for kernel extension"Com.apple.drive.ApplePowerSurgePE. IOCatalogue: com.apple.driver.ApplePowerSurgePE cannot be loaded. panic(cpu0): Unable to find drivers for this platform: "AAPL,9500". Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0: Backtrace: 0x0008593C 0x00085D6C 0x0002888C 0x002314A8 0x00213A38 0x00213834 0x00214184 0x002147E0 0x00204C60 0x00204C24 Proceeding back via exception chain Exception state (sv=0x01811500) PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000;DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â RI=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (unknown) Kernel Version: Darwin Kernel Version 6.0: Sat Jul 27 13:18:52 PDT 2002: root:xnu/xnu - 344.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC No debugger configured-dumping debug information MSR=00001030 Help! Thanks in advance for any suggestions. |
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RE: OS 10.2 install fails to REBOOT on a 9500 |
January, 27, 2003 5:56 PM |
jonck |
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Hi all, This may sound like a silly question, but when you speak of "top" slots, does this mean physcally, when the machine is standing upright, from top to bottom? Or is it something on the motherboard that labels which slots are "top" and which are bottom? I have a 9600 as well and was planning to upgrade it with a G4 800 MHz, hence my question. Thanks, Jonck |
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RE: OS 10.2 install fails to REBOOT on a 9500 |
January, 27, 2003 10:42 AM |
marcush |
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Fano, let me first correct two misperceptions I see in the responses below. First, your SIIG card and the drives attached to it appear to MacOS X as SCSI devices so the 8GB limit does not affect you in this case. I installed OSX onto a 20GB partition of my WD 80GB SE drive using my Acard ATA/133, which the the SIIG card actually is. Second, the Sonnet G4 800 and 700 Mhz cards resolved the 6-slot issue in oldworld Macs like ours. You can fill up your slots if you want to. However, you can follow these suggestions if you like, they won't hurt. You should use drive setup or HD Speed tools to format your drive. The kernel panic seems to indicate that the system is choking on the G4 800. Do you have an older upgrade to do the install with, a G3 perhaps? Your original 604e is no good for a 10.2 install. I assume that the G4 is fine in OS9. You could also deinterleave your RAM during the install to see if that helps. The main thing I'd try though is another processor to at least determine if the G4 800 is the cause. |
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RE: OS 10.2 install fails to REBOOT on a 9500 |
January, 26, 2003 7:29 PM |
OSXGuru |
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The panic message you got could mean a couple of things. It might mean that the Extensions.mkext didn't load properly, or was corrupted. If so, the "Reinstall Extensions" option in XPostFacto might help. Or it could be that Mac OS X didn't really install correctly for some reason, in which case reinstalling might help. |
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RE: OS 10.2 install fails to REBOOT on a 9500 |
January, 25, 2003 10:35 PM |
joevt |
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I would boot the OS X Install Disk 1 and use the Installer's Disk Utility to initialize the drive (don't forget to select the "Install OS 9 Drivers" option). Then go back to OS 9 and use the Finder's "Erase Disk..." command on the partition that will include OS X (select Mac OS Extended format), then install OS X. |
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RE: OS 10.2 install fails to REBOOT on a 9500 |
January, 25, 2003 4:23 PM |
fano |
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Thank you for your response. I thought the G4/800 was suppose to solve those problems with 6 slot machines. Well I did move the video card to slot 1 and put the SIIG card in slot 2. I originally had 3 partions on the 80, with the first less than 8 GB. But now when I try to reinstialize the 80 using the OS9 install disk the 80 drive will not mount and I get a fail message that says: Assertion(!Local Error)failed in "PatchWriteDriver.c" on line 64 Any ideas; do I now need to use the Hard Disk Tools from Intech that I have read about on this forum? Thanks |
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RE: OS 10.2 install fails to REBOOT on a 9500 |
January, 24, 2003 8:43 PM |
mjohnson1 |
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To add to the above - you don't mention whether you partitioned the 80G HD, or what you used to format the drive. As gchron said, don't format from X - use either Hard Disk Speed Tools or Apple's Drive Setup in OS 9 and make sure you make the first partition under 8G and install X on it. I was unable to install X on my system (PowerTower Pro, based on the 9500 motherboard) without doing this. Hope this helps. |
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RE: OS 10.2 install fails to REBOOT on a 9500 |
January, 24, 2003 3:15 PM |
gchron |
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Well I also have a 9500 and I am booting into OSX with no any problem. I would like to say two things about your configuration. The first thing I had seen is that you have a G4 800. This processor work only with PCI cards connected at the top three PCI slots of your computer. So cheack where the video card is connected (and possibly other cards) The first thing I show at you message is Open Firmware 1.0.5 Continue MacOs type: BYE return Continue default boot type: BOOT return. If you see this message you probably pressed the command option O-F or at your XPF program you unpressed the auto-boot from the open firmware menu item. Just repress this to enable it and so to boot normally. The next thing is the panic(cpu0): Unable to find drivers for this platform: "AAPL,9500". This means that XPF did not wrote any extension to the disk you want to install the OSX. just try to do the procedure again (Select the install CD at the top of XPF and your disk that you are going to instal X at tyhe bottom). Oh if you have trable try to use your internal SCSI hard disk for this initial installation. (When you start at X installer you select the disk you want but you will have to reinstall the XPF extensions and bootX after from PSX from XPF file menu. Also do not try to format the disk from OSX as (I have the Acard ATA 133) you will not be able to partition it (The system hangs for me)and it also will not boot. |