On Mar 30, 2004, at 02:44 am, Tracy E Bunting wrote:
I've done it again. I tried to update OS X (10.3.2 to
10.3.3) and I get the same gray apple screen. I've repaired permissions from
the OSX cd start up and that didn't help. Why doesn't this work? Shouldn't I
be able to run an OSX update? I've sent the Sonnet guys this question but in
case they don't respond or don't know the answer, I'm asking it here.
That screen actually covers up a whole lot of very complicated and occasionally useful text. You can boot into verbose mode by rebooting while holding Cmd-V and you will instead get a black screen and lots of white text. From there you might be able to 'give us a clue' by telling us what sorta stage it gets to.
FWIW I have a Sonnet G4/500 ZIF on my B&W and have had no ill effects from updating to 10.3.3.
Another thing I suppose i should ask is - are you using a SCSI or IDE boot drive?
I also am curious why a G3 B/W can't boot through the fire wire. What
controls this function? Is it a particular component or just the way it's
wired up?
It's a limitation of the firmware, as Marc said. You can use XPostFacto to boot from a FireWire drive on these machines but it relies on a fully working internal hard disk partition that *does not* have OS X on (it works with OS X partitions but I strongly advise against it as it may permanently stop OS X on that partition from booting) to act as a helper.
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