8500 Install always boots back to 9.2.2 |
January, 30, 2003 11:41 PM |
sean |
I got 10.2 for my iBook and thought I try to install it on my G3'd 8500, but every time I run XPostFacto the video turns off then comes back up with the grey screen and boots back to my 9.2.2 drive. I've got an Acard 33 bus with 2 Baracuda 20gigs, one which I partitioned into a 10gb partition for OSX and 2 5gb partitions. I have 416mb of RAM and run the video through a Nexus 128. The G3 is an XLR8 Carrier running 10x at 466mhz. No matter what I try it keeps booting in 9.2.2... Where do I go from here? |
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RE: 8500 Install always boots back to 9.2.2 |
January, 31, 2003 11:09 PM |
sean |
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Well, I cleared off my old 2gb scsi drive onto one of my IDE drives and decided to install 10.2 on that. It WORKED! no problem, only problem is that the ProMax card isn't OSX compatible so my IDE drive don't show up. This is a problem since I can't see the drives and use them or OS9. This should all be fixed when I get the new SIIG card installed. But I had to see if it would work...yippy. I love Macs, they outlast PCs forever.... |
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RE: 8500 Install always boots back to 9.2.2 |
January, 31, 2003 6:31 PM |
sean |
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Well, I had forgotten what IDE controller I had, and found out that I've got the ProMax TurboMax ATA/33 card which is not compatible with OSX; so I ordered the SIIG Pro 133/100 controller from OWC today, and hopfully I'll be running OSX this time next week. Thanks for the direction, it got me thinking about my controller... |
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RE: 8500 Install always boots back to 9.2.2 |
January, 31, 2003 12:42 PM |
egonzales21 |
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Try booting in verbose mode which might give more info. It sounds like the hard drive you are trying to install into cannot be opened. This is usually due to the software used to do the initial partitioning of your drive. You must use either Apple Drive Setup in OS 9.1 or greater or use Intech's hard drive software. Another thing to check is how your hard drives are seen when attached to the Acard. I believe they are seen as SCSI which imposes no limits. But if they are seen as ATA then their is a 8GB limit imposed. |