This is not working! 7300 w G3/400 Sonnet |
February, 28, 2003 1:03 PM |
jim.temple |
I am trying to install 10.2 on a 7300 w/Sonnet G3 400 upgrade card and 320 mb ram, installing to 10k virgin scsi drive. OS 9.1 on the original 2 gig scsi. I will have to say this is the 3rd machine I have unsuccessfully tried to install OS 10.2 onto. It is very frustrating when I read about everyone else's success stories and I can't get even one of these to work. I have tried every combination of throttle, (not sure which direction slow it down), verbose mode, single user, older versions of XPF, earlier versions of OS X. NOTHING has worked. I have stripped them to the original equipment before trying the first time in every instance. Same sad story. PLEASE, ANYBODY OFFER SOME HELP ON THIS? I am almost ready to get a cheap PC and drop Linux on it. It is easier to install on a PC than OS X with XPF. |
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RE: This is not working! 7300 w G3/400 Sonnet |
March, 02, 2003 1:34 PM |
chuckberhain |
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PPC 7600 / Sonnet 700 G4 /544MB / 10.2.4 I also had trouble installing OSX on my first few attempts, but had access to another similar Mac and after swapping the processor upgrade board, memory, etc, I finally was able to install onto the other mac using XPF, and then Sonnets software to be sure the L3 cache was working. The problem (difference) seemed to be that the hard drive and/or drivers were causing the problem, or a 'scsi termination' problem(?) The drive I was having trouble installing onto was a Seagate ST318417N. I eventually was able to install(copy) OSX onto that drive, after putting it in an external drive and using CARBON COPY CLONER. Even that gave me trouble until I read another thread here which suggested using the 'Bless OldWorld Target Disk' option. My point being that I also had 'stripped' my computer down and thought I had eliminated all other sources of error initially, but there are some components that are still difficult to swap, I am lucky to have a SIMILAR but DIFFERENT computer for troubleshooting. And TIME to keep going back to try something different. And that spare computer. |
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IF this is the 3rd machine . . . |
March, 02, 2003 7:21 AM |
naturist |
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you have been unsuccessful at installing OS X on, Jim, my guess is that it is something you are doing, or not doing, that is the problem. I've had no trouble with XPF on two machines. I quite understand your frustration, been there/done that, although not over OS X via XPF. I trust you've made sure all the drives are formatted as HFS+ first; that you are not attempting to install Jaguar while the machine(s) are running a 601, 603 or 604 processor, but are running at least a G3; that they are running XPF under OS 9 when you attempt the installation, and that you follow the XPF instructions carefully? Dum-dum proceedure, I know, but I've often found my biggest frustrations with unsolvable problems to come when I've done something simple wrong. |
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RE: This is not working! 7300 w G3/400 Sonnet |
February, 28, 2003 8:13 PM |
fixitjc |
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Try to reinstall the XPF extentions etc from the XPF menu. Somehow I installed mine on the wrong drive and had all kinds of weird problems until I figured out what I had done. Jim |
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RE: This is not working! 7300 w G3/400 Sonnet |
February, 28, 2003 7:21 PM |
kbata |
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I don't think Jag will work with a 604 installed. How far do you get into the installation when installing 10.2? If you look in your system 9 system folder in the preferences folder open up the "XPostFacto Log". Post that here and we can see if that will shed some light on your problem. |
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RE: This is not working! 7300 w G3/400 Sonnet |
February, 28, 2003 6:14 PM |
marcush |
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Try switching the target drive to the internal SCSI bus and temporarilly deinterleave your RAM if it is. Also, if you are trying with any version before 10.2 you could give the original 604e processor a go to see if it fares better. Finally, verify your scsi termination. OSX is very prickly about proper SCSi termination. |
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RE: This is not working! 7300 w G3/400 Sonnet |
February, 28, 2003 3:50 PM |
jim.temple |
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Sure, PowerPC 7300 with a Sonnet G3/400 upgrade card installed. 320 MB ram. 2 gig Apple drive (original scsi) with 1.4 gig available. (Not trying to go to that drive. Trying to install to a second internal. 10k 18 gig UW scsi adapted down to internal scsi bus. Apple keyboard and mouse. No additional cards installed. no external devices connected. Pretty plain jane. just won't work. |
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RE: This is not working! 7300 w G3/400 Sonnet |
February, 28, 2003 3:29 PM |
kbata |
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Can you give some details about your system? |
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RE:This is not working! 7300 w G3/400 Sonnet Prt 2 |
February, 28, 2003 2:15 PM |
jim.temple |
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I tried to go backward and install 10.0.3. I got as far as the install and got a kernel panic: Panic(cpu0): We can't get a mutex interlock lock on mutex_lock backtrace: 0x0008bb44 0x00029f00 0x0009328c oxooo46ba4 0x0019c988 0x0019d600 0x00042518 0x00036b80 0x000967e4 Debugger(panic) Waiting for remote debugger connection. Options . . . . . Type ----------- ---------- continue . . . . 'c' reboot . . . . . . 'r' continuing: We are hanging here. . . Go figure. Any ideas? |