Problems booting 7300 after 10.2 installation |
November, 05, 2002 3:46 AM |
jwong |
Hi, I'm attempting to use XPostFacto to run Jaguar on a Power Mac 7300 and have run into a bit of trouble. The installation went more or less fine, but when I attempt to boot into OS X, noise appears on my screen and I get a kernel panic. The text that appears is more or less as follows: IOKit Component Version 6.0: Sat Jul 27 13:13:37 PDT 2002; root (rcbuilder):RELEASE_PPC/iokit/RELEASE _cppInit done IODeviceTreeSupport done Recording startup extensions. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. using 819 buffer headers and 819 cluster IO buffer headers verifyCompatibility(): Extension "com.apple.kernel.iokit" cannot be found. getDependencyListForKmod(): Dependency com.apple.kernel.iokit of comp.apple.driver.ApplePowerSurgePE is not compatible or is unavailable. [display is garbled] Exception state (sv=0x01811500) PC=0x00000000 MSR=0x0000D030 DAR=0x00000000 DSIR=0x00000000 LR=0x00000000 R1=0x00000000 XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown) [display is garbled] No debugger configured - dumping debug information MSR=00001030 Latest stack backtrace for cpu0: Backtrace: 0x0008593C 0x00085F00 0x00028B8C 0x002314A8 0x00213A38 0x00213834 0x00214184 0x002147E0 0x00204C60 0x00204C24 Proceeding back via exception chain: Exception state (sv=0x1811500) PC=0x00000000 MSR=0x0000D030 DAR=0x00000000 DSIR=0x00000000 LR=0x00000000 R1=0x00000000 Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 6.0: Sat Jul 27 13:18:52 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC panic: We are hanging here... For what it's worth, my 7300 contains a 400 MHz XLR8 MaCH Carrier G4 accelerator, 320 MB of RAM, and an ATI RAGE Orion video card. This configuration had been working fine with Mac OS 10.0; the problem only turned up when I tried to install Jaguar. Any thoughts? |
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Success! |
November, 16, 2002 5:29 AM |
jwong |
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Well, somehow, some way, I was able to get Jaguar to complete the installation on disc 2. Among the things I tried: - A different set of media - A much higher throttle value in XPostFacto - Deleting the XPostFacto preferences - Using a fresh installation of XPostFacto (still 2.2.4) Unfortunately, I'm not sure just what did the trick, as I didn't approach things very scientifically this evening. For all I know, it was just dumb luck that it worked. Perhaps interesting is the fact that the successful install occurred only after several unsuccessful attempts to boot from the 10.2 CD for the first part of the installation, something that had never happened before; in my previous efforts, the initial restart and base installation had always succeeded. In any case, thanks again to for all of your help and suggestions... |
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RE: Problems booting 7300 after 10.2 installation |
November, 15, 2002 5:36 AM |
jwong |
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I tried removing /System/Library/Extensions.mkext, but this change didn't seem to have any effect: the system still crashed during startup. Unfortunately, enabling the output device option didn't seem to have any effect when I booted with command-v held down--I still got pretty much the same output I described in my original note. What else should I have been looking for? Any other ideas? Thanks again for your help. |
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RE: Problems booting 7300 after 10.2 installation |
November, 15, 2002 3:43 AM |
jwong |
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Thanks for the response. I am trying another installation this evening and will give your suggestions a shot. The weird thing is that I've gotten the reboot to succeed exactly once; unfortunately, I decided to try re-installing because I'd run into an issue with the login window failing to open. I haven't otherwise succeeded in getting to the second half of the installation process before or since. I've even tried replacing my XLR8 upgrade card--Gary Dailey at Daystar Technology has been very, very helpful--but the new CPU didn't seem to change the failure mode at all, though it did rectify some problems I was having getting back into Mac OS 9. |
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RE: Problems booting 7300 after 10.2 installation |
November, 10, 2002 8:01 PM |
OSXGuru |
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This does look a lot like the problem that version 2.2.4 of XPostFacto fixed ... One thing you could try is deleting the file at this path: /System/Library/Extensions.mkext I'm assuming that either this file is corrupt, or BootX is having some trouble loading it. The other thing you could try is setting your "output-device" in the Open Firmware menu of XPostFacto, and then holding down command-v as your computer starts up. This should get BootX to give you some diagnostic messages, which may indicate what is going wrong. |
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RE: Problems booting 7300 after 10.2 installation |
November, 06, 2002 2:36 AM |
jwong |
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Well, I tried again this evening, and had exactly the same result: a seemingly identical kernel panic. One interesting fact that may be of note: the computer failed to even begin booting after the Mac OS X installer tried to restart the system; all I got was a blank screen, and eventually my monitor went to sleep because there was no signal. Only after zapping the PRAM and power cycling the box a couple times was I able to boot back into Mac OS 9. From there, I ran XPostFacto and tried to reboot into Jaguar, only to be greeted with the panic I described in my original post. Any ideas? |
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RE: Problems booting 7300 after 10.2 installation |
November, 06, 2002 1:40 AM |
petefung |
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I have similar problem after I use carbon copy cloner. I hav kernel panic and refuse to boot into 10.1.5. After I back up all my data, I re-initial the hard drive use the most updated XpostFacto I installed the 10.2 in my 7300 with Sonnet G3 400 512k L2 512MB RAM Voodo3 2000 video card internal SCSI hard drive N external Firewire CRW. Everything working perfect. Sometimes corruption will affect the working |
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RE: Problems booting 7300 after 10.2 installation |
November, 05, 2002 10:57 AM |
jwong |
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Yup, I'm using 2.2.4. On a whim, I tried "Reinstall Extensions" anyway, and got the same behavior. |
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RE: Problems booting 7300 after 10.2 installation |
November, 05, 2002 5:05 AM |
nick.ashton |
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Are you using the latest version of XPostFacto (2.2.4) - this error could be caused by using an earlier release. If that's the case then download 2.2.4 & use the "Reinstall Extensions" and "Reinstall BootX" options from the advanced menu and retry. |
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RE: Problems booting 7300 after 10.2 installation |
November, 05, 2002 3:48 AM |
jwong |
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For what it's worth, I'm guessing that the part that reads '"com.apple.kernel.iokit" cannot be found. getDependencyListForKmod(): Dependency com.apple.kernel.iokit of comp.apple.driver.ApplePowerSurgePE is not compatible or is unavailable.' is definitely problematic. Unfortunately, I don't have the first clue what to do about it. |