On Saturday, Jan 17, 2004, at 06:13 US/Pacific, Jim Pendarvis wrote:
I'm using XPostfacto 3.0a10 to try to install Panther onto an 8600/G4.
The target drive is 40Gb ide connected to a Tempo ATA 133. It has been freshly formatted by Drive Setup from OS9.2.1.
XPostFacto copies some stuff to the target drive and then restarts to
install Panther. At that point all I get is a series of "No bootable HFS
partition" messages followed by a series of "Can't open deblocker package"
messages.
I have tried partitioning the target drive as one large volume and 5
smaller volumes (to be sure I was under 8GB). I have also tried using the
built-in SCSI (which normally boots OS9.2.2) as a helper drive. None of
this worked.
Any suggestions?
jim
Hi Jim,
I had the exact problem when using XPostFacto to install Jaguar on my 9600/G3. What worked for me was creating a partition to install Jaguar on that was measurable smaller than 8GB (mine's 6000MB). After that, everything worked fine. This was on an 80GB drive connected to an UltraTek/66 ATA controller.
I don't know if this will help or not, as you've mentioned you tried smaller partitions. I settled on 6000MB, after trying something in the 7GB range, and still having the issue. It makes me wonder if perhaps the "less than 8GB" might not mean "less than 8000MB". *shrugs*
HTH,
Gary
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