It sounds like you have a bad OS-8 cd. I will check to see if I still
have one, if so I will sell it to you for $5 or so. Now the bad news, I
will be out of town until Tuesday. If someone else is in town, they may
be able to help you sooner.
Also, you might consider switching to TechTool Pro.
Jerry
On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 10:42 PM, JansIdea at aol.com wrote:
> Greetings
> Can anyone out there help.
> I have a powerPC 6500, 225 running 7.6.1 with a 68030 processor. I
> called
> Apple and the tech told me that this computer would run up to 9.0, so
> that
> shouldn't be the problem. I am trying to update my computer to 8.0
>
> I keep getting the error
> " Sorry, system error has occurred, illegal instruction. To temporary
> turn
> off extensions, restart and hold down shift key.
>
> I have done that. When I turned off the extensions and booted up using
> the OS
> 8 as the startup disk I get the above problem. I have run the Norton
> Utilities disc and there were a few problems on my hard drive that the
> "doc"
> took care of. I turned off all my extensions except the start up disc
> and the
> cd-rom extension, reboot holding down the "c" key and still get the same
> error message.
>
> I have tried booting up from other discs and no problem occurred. But I
> put
> the OS 8 in the cd-rom and get that error message.
>
> Any suggestions where the problem is, would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
> Jan
>
> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>
>
>
>
The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
