Okay so I have a B&W G3 PowerMac that I've recently built up from parts
I bought off ebay. I also have a eMac 1.25GHz. I installed 10.3.3
onto my B&W and I noticed that whenever I look at my memory in system
profiler the window would close and the program would stop
unexpectedly. I updated the system to 10.3.4 and that problem went
away but when it lists the type and speed of memory it say's "unknown"
so that all well and good, so I figured maybe the firmware is out of
date. So I went to apple and found the firmware update and downloaded
it. The firmware update requires to run in classic! I didn't have
classic installed. So I put in my 9.1 CD and tried to use it's system
folder as a boot disk in classic. didn't work. So I tried to install
9.1 onto my system. It couldn't because the firmware is out of date,
and when I tried to install it then, it said that it couldn't write to
the system folder on the install disk. (no-duh) so... I formatted the
main hard drive into two partitions, installed 8.6 onto one. I
preformed the firmware update and then installed 9.1, and proceeded to
upgrade it all the way to 9.2.2 . Now this is where things start to
get really hairy. I inserted my 10.3 install disk, and tried to select
it as a bootable drive. didn't work. pressing the "C" key on my
computer does nothing. To make the matter worse I can't get it back
into 9.2.2! so I re-insert the 9.1 install disk, I copy the 9.2.2
partition to another drive, and erase all of that partition. I shut
down the computer, open it up, pull the plug physically from the spare
hard drive, press the cuda button, and restart the computer with my
10.3 disk in. It loads fine. I install it and upgrade it completely.
then I shut down again, plug the drive back in. press the cuda button,
and turn the computer on. It boots fine to 10.3.4 . i copy the
partition back to the other drive. so now I have a main partition with
10.3.4 , and a secondary partition with 9.2.2, and a whole 'nother
drive as backups. so I then run a experiment to see if I can get it to
boot back into 9. I open up preferences, go to startup disk, and select
the secondary partition and OS 9 as my startup system. I press reboot
and it restarts into 9 just fine. I play around a little to ensure it's
fully functional and go to control panels and select the startup disk
control. I select my OS 10 partition, and 10.3.4 . I press restart and
the computer reboots, sort of... It chimes, but then hangs completely I
don't get anything. I put in 10.3 install disk, press "C" nothing, 9.1
install disk "c" nothing. nothing nothing nothing! it chimes, it
works-ish it just doesn't boot! what am I doing wrong? any help would
be nice.
- Jonathan
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