On 2008-09-19 10:43 -0700, Phyllis Swanson wrote: >I used the option key - got the old little mac in the middle of the >screen. Screen went black and it rebooted into OSX. Then same >problem. > >Tried again with OS9 install disk. It is up now. So it looks like a >software problem. What should be my course of action to get OS X >working on this machine? > > phyllis swanson >http://home.earthlink.net/~psswanson >
I have two Wallstreets on which I have run nearly every shade of OS-X from 10.1.5 through to 10.4.11. Once you get up and running, I highly recommend installing at least 10.4.9 for speed and reliability. In the mean time, I hope following may help. ----- Search for XPostFacto application on one of your partitioned volumes. If it is not there you can suspect the OS-X version you have is 10.2.8 or lower. If you find XPostFacto, check the version - latest is version 4.0 - still downloadable from http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto Before you start XPostFacto, read and try to understand the documentation, readable online at the above URL. Don't worry too much if there are details you don't understand, as XPostFacto is fairly fail-safe. The main problem I've found is that the terminology in the instructions doesn't always match the options in the application menu. It took me a while to work out that "Recopy Helper Files" in the application menu sometimes meant "Resynchronize" in the documentation. When you start XPostFacto, first look for what OS versions are listed as options. Then go back and read again the XPostFacto documentation, particularly concerning use of helper disks in boot process for OS-X. How big are your hard disk partitions? If OS-X is installed on a large partition (>8GB), it will need a smaller 'helper' disk to boot. When you do decide to reboot into OS-X click on 'Options' button, and enable 'verbose' option. This will write a whole lot of stuff to the screen during startup, and if things are hanging, give you a chance to diagnose the problem. At this stage, lacking any info of your setup, I'd suspect if you have 10.3.x, or an early version of 10.4.x installed, the boot process can sometimes stall unable to find the startup disk. On the XPostFacto verbose output, this problem shows up as a repeating message "...waiting for root device". To get past this problem I found I sometimes had to 'warm reboot' (cmd-ctrl-powerkey) my computer, in the worst case several times, until it would somehow 'catch' the startup disk and continue booting. This problem all but disappeared with OSX.4.9 and later. hth.. AD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
