Beige G3 Rev A Jaguar - Won't boot from CD |
October, 18, 2002 7:01 PM |
tyoung1 |
Hello, I have a Beige G3 233 upgraded with a 40 GB IDE drive, partitioned so that I have a 7.8 GB partition at the front, etc. I was able to install OS 10 upto version 10.1.5 without the aid of XPF. However, I was unable to install 10.2. It looks like it is installing just fine, but when I restart for the first time into OS 10, I get a kernel panic. It mentions something about loading Gosamer drivers, but I cannot see the error message clearly since a bunch of grey "garbage" is drawn accross the screen. So I tried XPF 2.2.3. When I run XPF, it copies a bunch of files and reboots. But instead of rebooting to the CD, it just reboots into 9. I do have some other hardware upgrades, such as a G3 500 IBM chip, extra RAM, and an ATI Radeon, but I removed all of this and tried installing with the original hardware. I also disconnected all external devices prior to install. Also note that the cd and hdd are on seperate channels (naturally, its a rev a) and are both explicitly set to master (no CS). I know there are plenty of people out there running jaguar on these, still, great machines. Can any one help? Ted Young |
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RE: Beige G3 Rev A Jaguar - Won't boot from CD |
October, 21, 2002 9:45 AM |
OSXGuru |
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Hmm. The most common reason for rebooting into Mac OS 9 at that point relates to disk driver issues--it often happens if your drive was formatted with software other than Apple's Drive Setup or Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools. (And by Drive Setup I mean the Mac OS 9.x version, not the Disk Utility in Mac OS X). But it sounds like that may well not be your problem, since it would have affected 10.0 and 10.1 as well. One thing you could try is setting the "output-device" in the Open Firmware menu of XPostFacto to your monitor, and then holding down command-v as XPostFacto restarts the computer. That should give you some error messages before the reboot to Mac OS 9 takes over. One other possibility is that XPostFacto is getting the Open Firmware name for your hard drive wrong (i.e. setting the wrong boot-device). Your XPostFacto Log file might give some clues about that. |
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