I believe that the problem is the Video Chip on your G3 Minitower (& mine also). I think that the drivers for the Video Chip are Not present in Jaguar. I think that such drivers were present in earlier versions of OS X.
Someone will know for sure. (How much video RAM do you have?) Bruce Johnson wrote: > I have a beige G3 MT 300, 4G drive, 256 mb ram, runs 9.2 ok. I've > determined that the ROM has not been swapped for a Rev 1. The HDD is on > the ata bus, the SCSI and the Zip drive, apparently, are SCSI (!? My > desktop 300G3 had no scsi devices...is this a generic difference > between the MT and desktops or was this a bto option of some sort?) > > This machine is , afaik, stock as it came from Apple, save for added > memory. > > When I try to install OS X (10.2) it trundles along fine through the > first disk , but when It reboots, all I get is a gray OSX boot screen > with a circle/slash, which then briefly turns to a OS 9 boot screen (I > get a happy Mac) and it restarts. (BTW, I checked the disk with the > disk tools on the OSX CD before I installed it last time, everything > was fine) > > This is the second time I've tried installing OSX on this box, > previously all I got was a blank white screen with an underscore in the > upper left hand corner of the screen, it wouldn't boot from > *anything*. This was fixed by thoroughly resetting PRAM (leaving the > battery out overnight, pressing cuda switch for 15 sec) and installing > a new battery. This *finally* let me boot from the CD, to reformat the > drive, and install OS 9.2 again) > > t just doesn't want to boot into OSX (or from the OSX CD, though it > will boot from the OS 9 CD). anyone have any ideas here? > > -- -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
