In my case, I used a 24x Apple CD-ROM drive, but I also have a Panasonic 24x CD-ROM drive as well.
Does that occur when booting from the CD or the hard disk? When I tried the install initially, I placed the 10.2 CD in and held C down. It briefly starts and restarts the computer, then begins the install of X. After the install was completed, I removed the CD and got the message that you received. So far I have not figured out a way to get around it yet. I was installing to a spare 40GB drive, so all I did was put the original 40GB drive in and started it up.
I have no extra VRAM in it right now (I'm at 2MB), but I have a generic RealTek 8139 NIC, a generic USB card, and an ATI Mach64 card from a 9500/200. The next time I try this I'm going to remove all of the cards and try again.
The reason I was trying this was to try to make it faster. My current 10.2.8 install was done by installing 10.0.3, then the 10.0.4 update, then the 10.1 upgrade, then the 10.1.5 combo update, then the 10.2. upgrade, then the 10.2.6 combo update, then the second 10.2.8 combo update (whew).
Brian Futrell --- "Sharkey": G3/266DT (OC 300) Mach64/320MB/40GB/Zip100/SCSI CD-RW/10.2.8
On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 01:41 AM, Mike Kauspedas wrote:
Well, I can't get it to load. OS 9 runs fine, but it will not boot OS X. I
get a "blue screen" that says can't open partition over and over and then
reboots or simply a small thin black _ . Tried zapping PRAM, RAM, HD,
CD-ROM, OS CD, Video, VRAM, Mouse, Keyboard, Monitor, taking out personality
card, partitioning with OS X, partitioning with OS 9.2.2. Anyone have any
other suggestions? Anyone have any problems. Its basically a beige G3 mini
tower.
Server G3 300MHz 1MB cache 512MB, 256MB, 128MB RAM (any one of those amounts can be used) 40x CD-ROM (non-apple) or 24x Sony CD-ROM (apple) both boot OS 9 30GB Seagate HD (non apple), 20GB Quantum (non apple)
Thanks in advance, Mike
v2: The 21' radius I am using has no red, so the "blue" screen should be
white. Right now it is sitting at the apple logo and little spinning line of
circles thing. I think it might work, but it has been doing it for like 5
minutes. We'll see! Thanks again.
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