On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:39 PM, Ashgrove wrote: > I decided to try and bypass the whole Xpostfacto thing
Can't do this on "old world" Macs, you MUST use XPF. The only "unsupported" Macs that you can use unmodified 10.4.11 on are the 'new world' Macs such as the colored iMacs & iBooks. As for your current setup, it may or may not be salvageable depending upon these 8 GB partitions. The Wallstreet is one that has the 1st 8 GB partition limitation for OS X. If you're lucky, and your 8 GB partitions are smaller than the limit size, then you've got a valid bootable partition, but the question becomes, which 8 GB partition is the "first" 8 GB, is it the OS 9 or the OS X? Personally, I'd strongly recommend starting over again. In my mind, OS 9 is pretty much dead, so I'd want 10.4.11 as my main OS. In this case, the way I would partition a 30 GB HD would be 1 GB within the 1st 8 GB for OS 9.1 (best OS for XPF). Then I "might" do another partition within the 1st 8 GB for a "directly bootable OS X 10.4.11 'repair' System". This would be a small partition, perhaps only 3 GB or so (note, 3 GB is too small to 'install' 10.4.11 onto, but you can 'clone' a very minimal 10.4.11 onto only 3 or 4 GB. I'd have a 'repair' partition ONLY to boot into to run Disk Utility or Disk Warrior on my main partition, which would be the 3rd partition that constituted the remainder of the HD, and crossed outside the 8 GB limitation. This largest partition would NOT be directly bootable, you'd need to use XPF's 'helper disk' boot option, selecting one of the partitions within the 1st 8 GB as the 'helper' to enable the boot of this larger partition. If you're sticking with what you've got now, you'll need to boot OS 9, download XPF 4, install XPF 4 onto the OS X partition, then determine if the OS X partition is the "1st", "2nd" or "3rd". IF the OS X is the "1st", you can boot it directly. If it's the 2nd or 3rd, you'll need to use XPF to select the 1st partition as the 'helper' and then boot the OS X partition. When you use XPF, no matter what you do, DON'T use Apple Startup Disk from either OS 9 or OS X. It conflicts with XPF, they both write to the exact same areas of NVRAM, and if you use Startup Disk you'll end up with something unbootable that you'll need to reset the PRAM & NVRAM in order to boot at all. The Wallstreet is a complicated Mac for 10.4.11, and you'd be well served reading the XPF forum archives for Wallstreet related postings. There are almost no members posting to the XPF forums, so it's probably not worth registering (paying) the XPF fee so that you can post. XPF works without any cost, there's one tiny 'nag' screen, just click 'I've already donated' and it's gone forever. If you need assistance, the "Unsupported OS X" list here on LEM lists is the best alternative. Since the Wallstreet support stopped at Jaguar 10.2, and postings about Panther or Tiger on the Wallstreet belong over on the Unsupported OS X list. Here's some info about the difference's between Old World & New World. All the New World Macs have flash ROM that can be updated, the Old World all have non-Flash ROM modules that can't be updated without changing chips. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_ROM> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_ROM> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
