Ron
On Wednesday, August 18, 2004, at 10:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're trying to install OS X (10.3 CD) for the first time on a 300MHz blue&white G3 tower (which, by the way, doesn't seem to appear as an option in Apple's specs).
80GB Maxtor drive erased fine, and the OS 9.2.1 CD installed fine. The 9.2.2 update didn't work properly in Software Update, but ran fine from the desktop after the reboot.
So OS 9 seems stable on this machine as would be expected.
BUT, OS X has been a nightmare. The first few times trying to install were greeted with a variety of behaviors:
- a white-lettering-on-black rectangle (in 4 languages) saying only that the Mac needs to be restarted
- OS X install failed with no error detail
- installer log revealed an error: "root:bootstrap_lookup(): unknown error code
- two other error messages (system rebooted itself before we could write them down) after a mostly successful install - this happened during optimization (log indicated that install was successful, but optimization failed)
At two early reboots, the system started to come up in OS X, then dropped into a full-screen console login screen.
Finally, after several reboots, the system mysteriously seemed to work for awhile, but then started to get the white-lettering-on-black message again. his now seems to be a persistent behavior, though we can still reboot into OS 9 and all still seems fine.
Any ideas? We've repaired disk several times. We zapped PRAM, we unplugged all peripjerals. The OS 10.3 CD boots consistently and seems to run fine, just something about the ability to get OS X installed successfully on the hard disk. Is this model inherently flawed or incompatible in some way?
Thanks, Gordon
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