Oops, I failed again! |
September, 15, 2003 2:09 AM |
mbedford |
I had tried XPF in the past, installing OS-X internally on my 7300/G3 upgrade (G3/466 ZIF running at 444 on an XLR8 adapter card; 512 RAM, 2 XLR8 USB and 1 ProMax FW PCI card, 2 internal 4-gig SCSI drives). I didn't want to hack my personal home hardware too much, even though I'm a Mac lab tech. I didn't ever get past the Apple startup greeting or a weirded out desktop in OS-X, so I eagerly awaited XPF 3. I maintain an official, up-to-date installation of OS-X (created from a G4 using Carbon Copy Cloner) on an external FireWire drive, which I use to template my G4 lab machines one by one. So I've been waiting to try it as a boot drive on my 7300 (how handy would that be!). I launched XPF 3 and copied the necessary files onto my "helper" drive (optional names: intermediary, transfer, assist, pre-host) (one of the internal 4-gig SCSI's). Tried different settings in XPF 3 and turned off the unused second FW drive, but again, couldn't get past the Apple splash and spinning startup icon (not cursor), as seen in the photo linked below. The first time I let it go for a half-hour before force-restarting and successfully Optioning back into OS 9. On a later try, the OS-X Apple icon turned into the "do not enter" symbol before too long. I'll try again as XPF 3 gets improved. I don't plan on messing with RAM configuration, etc., because the system works just fine with a patched OS 9.2.2 (courtesy of OS9forever.com and friends). See http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/mbedford/misc/osx1.jpg and http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/mbedford/misc/osx2.gif for photos of my attempt, including the error text in verbose mode. You'll note I even printed out the instructions ;-). |
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RE: Oops, I failed again! |
September, 15, 2003 9:56 PM |
mbedford |
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The text did not exceed one screen, so you see most of it. I'll try again with a later release of XPF. |
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RE: Oops, I failed again! |
September, 15, 2003 4:06 PM |
OSXGuru |
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The verbose mode error text actually looks pretty normal, as far as that goes. Does it stop at that point? I would have expected something more. The "do not enter" symbol can mean a variety of things--the best way to diagnose that is to boot in verbose mode :-) |
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