Can't Boot Beige G3 in OS X (even the CD) |
August, 30, 2002 11:50 PM |
gilesc |
I'm having problems trying to install OS X on a Beige G3 All-in-One AV. I've tried 10.0 and 10.2 install CD's. I tried pulling out the upgraded 333 processor and putting the original 266 processor back in. I pulled out the Orange Micro firewire card (since it might not work under OS X anyway). This evening's events: Booted machine from 9.2.1 CD, created an 8 gig partition at the front of the drive and left the rest of the 30 gig in a second partition. Installed 9.2.1 on the larger partition. Rebooted. Ran software update until 9.2.2 was installed and fully up-to-date. Now the trouble starts. If I put in the OS X CD and click on the installer from inside OS 9, I get this message: "Startup Disk was unable to select the install CD as the startup disk. (-2)" So I figure... that's not great. I let it get on with it, and it turns out that any attempt to boot off an OS X CD (either through startup disk or holding down "C" after the chime) results in a smiley mac for a half a second and then an instant reboot. After the first reboot, an open firmware error starts appearing and it prints "Can't OPEN: " over and over again for 2 and a half lines at the top of the screen before trying to boot (and failing.) Zapping the PRAM makes that go away, but I still have to boot from the OS 9 CD before I can get things running again. I turned to XPostFacto in hopes of bypassing whatever the problem is, but after running XPF I get the same thing - Smiley Mac and instant reboot. I'm seeing a lot of stuff in here about NVRAM and size limitations. I've zapped my PRAM with the keyboard, I've cleaned it out with Techtool, I've taken the PRAM battery out and left it for a few hours. I'm running out of things to try, and this isn't even an unsupported machine! |
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RE: Can't Boot Beige G3 in OS X (even the CD) |
August, 31, 2002 10:22 AM |
gilesc |
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Looks like that did it! I dug out my old double-speed Apple branded SCSI CD-ROM drive (last used on my PowerBook 2400c) and after dredging up the memory of how SCSI terminators work I got it to boot! And now it's installing. Estimated install time? 1 hour 54 minutes. I think it's lying. |
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RE: Can't Boot Beige G3 in OS X (even the CD) |
August, 31, 2002 3:20 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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I've also seen some really weird install problems on the beige g3. If you have a SCSI CD drive kicking around you might try hooking that bad boy up... Good Luck. |
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