Not much help, here. I was pretty sure CCC does not work on Old World Macs. Is there any way of contacting those programmers? Also, 10.2 introduces major changes, none of which is helpful for the older machines. Have you tried the previous versions of X ? Or, if the HDDs are damaged anyways, 10.2.3 has an improved Disk Utility - what does it do? Cheers George --- pmonje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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..... Has anybody > seen anything like this before? Thanks in advance > for any help.
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