Hi Greg,
can you try to boot with this OS cd in other machine? Just to see if it is ok. Also you can try to boot with OS9 CD to see what happens. Just to see if the CD drive is ok.
Marcelo Maia
Marcelo:
I successfully booted into OS 9.1, from the OS 9.1 CD, in the CD-ROM drive. I can't check the Jaguar CD on another machine right now, but I strongly doubt that there's any problem with it -- it's only be used once before, to install Jaguar onto my iBook 600, and since then it has been kept in safe place.
Other than the inability to install OS X Jaguar, the machine is working perfectly. I am truly puzzled by this. I've searched Apple's support website, and I can't find anything that's helpful.
Greg
On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 10:10 Brazil/East, Greg Abbott wrote:
Hi - I'm new to the list, with my new (to me) Beige G3.
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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