Happy Holidays, I'm having a little problem with my Beige G3 DT. It was running fine with OSX 10.2.3 until I decided to install a new 60gb Maxtor HD. I installed it as master on the secondary IDE channel, formatted it and everything seemed fine. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the original 4gb quantum drive, then selected it in the boot selector. When I reset, it booted from the quantum. Puzzled, I checked the Maxtor and found that the system folder wasn't blessed, so I blessed it with CCC and reset again. That's when the trouble started. It wouldn't recognize either drive as bootable. I tried everything i could think of to get it to work, resetting pram, pressing cuda, swapping drives, removing all but the original components, and nothing would work. so, I got out my osx 10.2 cd and tried tried reformatting. Much to my suprise, the install wouldn't run. The CD booted fine, I'd get the grey apple screen with the spinning wheel, then the screen would go black. Time to call Apple. Unfortunately, they had no idea what was going on. After talking to three techs their verdict was that both HDs had been damaged and OSX couldn't format them. I really found that hard to believe, so I got out my unix books, booted from the CD into single user mode and started to poke around. I eventually got the install to work by hand executing all the commands in the /etc/rc.cdrom file. The install screen was very messed up. The screen was greyscale, but it looked like the program was trying to display in color, there were lots of extra bits all over, kind of like a b+w TV with a bad antenna. The install went fine, but when I rebooted I got the same black screen as before. Back to single user mode, I checked the system.log and watched the boot process a couple of times and it seems that the problem is with SystemStarter and the Window Server. There are no error messages in the log or during the boot process. The OS is running while the screen is black, it just won't display anything. I think maybe, that Darwin isn't detecting my display hardware or monitor, but i don't know enough about bsd device drivers to find out. Sorry this message is so long, but I wanted to be as detailed as possible. Has anybody seen anything like this before? Thanks in advance for any help.
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