unable to install |
September, 06, 2002 12:04 AM |
christog712 |
hello, i'm running a 9500, 450 G4 with 692 RAM, IBM Deskstar 120G drive (running off the VST card) and a Quantum Fireball 2G (from which i run 10.1.5 flawlessly). I've partitioned the 120G drive carefully into two 8G partitions (plus extra) and successfully installed and booted 9.1 off the second partition. Running the latest XPostfacto looks successful until the restart time, when it always boots onto my 9.1 partition. |
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RE: unable to install |
September, 14, 2002 1:45 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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I found the VST card to be sketchy under OSX, and I had to abandoned it completely. I have an Acard 66 card now, but haven't tried using it as a boot disk yet. The ATTO Express PCI PSC that OWC sells for about ($40) is the best disk controller I've found so far... SCSI of course... |
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RE: unable to install |
September, 13, 2002 11:44 PM |
OSXGuru |
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For some reason, disks formatted in Mac OS X won't boot Mac OS X on unsupported machines. You'll probably need to reformat in Mac OS 9.x, unfortunately. |
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RE: unable to install |
September, 09, 2002 7:40 PM |
christog712 |
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i did the firmware updater for the VST card and (happily) found myself booting into 9.1 (off the card) easily ... the deskstar was formatted in 10.1 with the drive setup - could that be a problem? i see everything fine in 9.1 ... |
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RE: unable to install |
September, 07, 2002 5:42 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Here's a couple of possibilities. Have you used the OWC/FrmTek firmware updater for the VST card? The VST cards are not bootable in Mac OS X otherwise. Also, which formatting utility did you use to format the disk? Your symptom is typical of a disk which was formatted with something other than Apple's Drive Setup or Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools. |