Another 2.2.2 Installation Issue |
September, 18, 2002 2:02 PM |
K4thwright |
I'm running a PowerMac 9500 with two internal SCSI drives, 9 GB and 18 GB Seagate Barracudas, 1.28 GB of RAM, two monitors driven by ATI Xclaim VR (4 MB VRAM) and ATI VR 128 (2 MB VRAM), and a Firewire Card driving an 80 GB Western Digital ATA hard disk partitioned into nine 8 GB sections. One of the 18 GB SCSI drives has a 4 GB partition, which I have designated as my OS X Plaything. All of the rest of the SCSI drives (six more partitions) are dedicated to useful work, although I have used and intend to continue to use one of them as the Classic volume for OS X 10.2 My problem is this: I previously installed OS X up through 10.1.5 on this 4 GB volume, and it worked OK within the limitations of OS X at that point-not really useful for serious work but OK as a learning tool. At that time I was running an XLR8 450 MHZ Mach Carrier G4 MPe SSE CPU upgrade card. Later, I bought a copy of OS X 10.2 and installed it. It installed OK, but most of the applications would not launch because of a "shared library error". I put the project aside to do some real work and then decided to upgrade my 9500 again, this time with a Sonnet Crescendo 800 MHz G4 CPU card. This card works flawlessly with my machine and is some 10%-12% faster on Photoshop 7 than the 450 MHz card. Not a great improvement, probably because both CPUs run the memory bus at 50 MHz, but it is a little better than the other one, which I have installed into my wife's 8600. However, I again attempted to install Jaguar with XPostFacto 2.2.2, and this time the machine won't boot into the Install Disc to finish the installation after the Private and System folders are copied to this partition. I had used this partition as a scratch disk for some rather large files, so I had to erase everything and re-format it before trying the new installation. Two more items of information: The original 4x CD-ROM drive that came with the 9500 was replaced with an Apple 12x drive, so booting from the CD-ROM is not a problem. However, I was forced to format the 4 GB partition with LaCie's Silverlining Pro v.6.4.4, which worked on the previous OS X installations, because the Hard Disk Speed Tools utility that I have will not let me format only one of the partitions on the drive. I would have to erase and re-format the whole drive, which is not a practical option. Any help will be appreciated. Kent |
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RE: Another 2.2.2 Installation Issue |
September, 19, 2002 11:31 PM |
K4thwright |
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I'm having a little trouble understanding why Silverlining may be the whole problem, although it may be part of it. This 18 GB hard drive was originally set up and partitioned months ago using Silverlining Pro 6.4.4 when my CPU card was a Newer Tech 400 MHz G4. I tried the Sonnet software to install 10.1, but Boot X on their startup disk crashed my system so badly that the only way to recover was to remove the G4 card and re-install the dual 604e card that was in it earlier. That process reset everything, and I was able to put the G4 back in. Then last March I purchased the XLR8 450 MHZ G4 accelerator, installed it, and used it successfully for several months. I found your web site from the XLR8 web pages and downloaded 2.2b7 in April. I used 2.2b7 to install OS X 10.1 on a 3 GB partition (put in by Silverlining 6.4.4), which worked fine as far as it went. I downloaded all of the Apple upgrades through 10.1.5, and played around successfully with OS X for awhile. It became obvious a little later that a 3 GB partition was not adequate to support the 2 GB that OS X by itself takes up, so I looked around and found that I could put the OS 8.1 legacy system that I had on the 4 GB partition on the 3 GB partition and free up the 4 GB for OS X. Of course, when I tried to copy OS X 10.1.5 from one partition to another, I found out the hard way that I couldn't do it, and that I'd have to re-install 10.1.5 from scratch. After trying to re-create all the Apple security updates and downloads in the proper order without success, I just gave up and waited for Jaguar. When Jaguar arrived, I erased and re-formatted the 4 GB partition with Silverlining and installed 10.2 using XPostFacto 2.2.2. As I said in my first post, this installation was completed OK, but some of the applications would not launch because of a shared library error. The chess game worked fine, so I figured I could find out later how to get the other applications to launch, even though I'm not smart enough to beat the machine at chess. The real problem came about when I again changed my CPU, this time to the Crescendo 800 GHz G4 accelerator. It was at that point that the machine refused to boot up from the install disc and just sat there with both monitors dead. When I get some free time, I think the next thing I'll try is to re-install the Newer Tech 400 GHz G4 to see if that will work. Removing the XLR8 450 MHz G4 from my wife's 8600 to re-install in my 9500 is not an option, and re-formatting the whole 18 GB hard drive with the Intech software is not attractive, either. I'll let you know how it works. |
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RE: Another 2.2.2 Installation Issue |
September, 19, 2002 9:55 PM |
OSXGuru |
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My best guess is that SilverLining may be the problem. If all you needed to do was erase the partition, you could have done that in the Mac OS 9 Finder. Just select the volume you want to erase, and use the "Erase Disk" command. It will create a new filesystem on that volume (and not affect other partitions). You could try that even now to see whether it helps. The only question would be whether SilverLining has installed its disk drivers, which might create problems booting Mac OS X. In that case, you might use the SpeedTools utility to install its drivers again. Though I should say that this business of installing new drivers onto disks is a little risky, and I would normally want to have a pretty good backup before I tried that. |
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RE: Another 2.2.2 Installation Issue |
September, 18, 2002 2:10 PM |
ian |
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Also, you might want to try using Apple's Drive Setup program to format all of the drives. I know that there is a hack out there you can do that will let you format any brand IDE/ATA and SCSI drives, not just ones with an Apple ROM. |
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RE: Another 2.2.2 Installation Issue |
September, 18, 2002 2:08 PM |
ian |
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Maybe you are copying the OS X installation within the Finder of either OS X or OS 9. What you have to do when copying an OS X installation is retain all of the permissions and symlinks, which the Finder in both OS X and OS 9 do not really do too well. Use a program called Carbon Copy Cloner. It runs in X and does a real spiffy job at copying installs of OS X. |
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