Installing Jaguar on a 9500, XLR8 ZIF / G3-400 |
September, 22, 2002 2:35 PM |
hayduke |
Hello, I bought a PM9500 for the purpose of getting OS X running on it. The previous owner claims he was able to do so using xpostfacto. I have attempted to install Jaguar on my machine to no avail. What happens is, I put the CD in, run xpostfacto 2.2.2, tell it to start off the Jaguar CD and install onto my OS 9 drive. I click "install" and it starts copying files to the hard disk, and then reboots. But when it starts back up, it doesn't go into the installer at all--it simply boots back into OS 9, as though the CD weren't there at all. Furthermore, I can't even find BootX on my hard disk. I have an Adaptec 2940UW card which (according to the xpostfacto FAQ) has potential installation issues. Is this behavior characteristic of what will happen with this card? If so, I don't understand how the previous owner would have managed to successfully install OS X. Would it be possible (that is, do you think it would work) to install a non-UW drive on the motherboard controller, remove the 2940UW card, and then install onto the non-UW drive? Or is there something I'm just doing wrong? I've read all the instructions, followed them carefully, and even read the troubleshooting section, and I can't find anything that describes this behavior. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matthew McCleary, hayduke@nmt.edu |
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RE: Installing Jaguar on a 9500, XLR8 ZIF / G3-400 |
September, 27, 2002 3:26 PM |
OSXGuru |
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The most common cause for booting into Mac OS 9 rather than doing the install relates to the software used to format your drive. This is often seen if something other than Apple's Drive Setup or Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools was used. You could also get this behaviour from an unbootable disk controller as well, I suppose. You could try setting the "output-device" in the Open Firmware menu of XPostFacto, and then holding down command-v as you boot. In that case, you may see a series of "can't OPEN" messages on the screen before you reboot into Mac OS 9. Installing onto a drive connected to the onboard SCSI controller may well work better. (Even when booting from the CD, XPostFacto actually sets up the earliest part of the boot process to take place from the install target, so that is why it makes a difference). |
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