I'm having a problem installing OS X 10.2 -- the machine won't boot into the OS X installer CD. When I select the Jaguar CD in the Startup Disk control panel, and restart, it seems to pause for a few seconds after the startup chime and then re-boot in OS 9.2. When I click on the "Install OS X" icon on the CD directly, and I click on the resulting "Restart" button, the machine won't restart at all. The button greys out, and the machine just sits there, happy as a clam in OS 9. In fact, command-Q will quit the OS X installer and leave me in 9, as if nothing happened.
The machine is a Rev. C G3/266 DT, with a G4 ZIF upgrade running at 416, 66 MHz bus, 768 Meg of RAM, with a Sonnet Tempo ATA/66 PCI card, a USB/FW card, and a Radeon 7000 PCI card.
I am using the stock 24x IDE CDROM drive to install.
I have a new WD 80 gig. HD Special Edition (8 meg. cache) attached as the boot-up device to the ATA/66 PCI card. I am attempting to install OS 10.2 onto a 7.9 meg partition (the first partition) on that drive.
I also have an older WD 27 gig HD attached as a slave on the same IDE bus as the CD-ROM. I removed the stock 4 gig drive, and currently nothing is attached to that IDE bus.
My next steps are to remove the 27 gig drive, and try the install with the CD-ROM on its own bus. If that doesn't work, I might try moving the 80 gig drive on to the original first IDE bus that the stock 4 gig drive was on, and if that installation works, then move the drive back to the ATA PCI card.
Will this work? Am I missing something? I'd appreciate any insight into this problem that the list members can contribute.
Greg Abbott
Minneapolis, MN
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