Richard and Dan and everyone who responded, THANK YOU!!! It turns out that the culprit was that I formatted my new drive using the Disk Utility in OS X. Once I reformatted with Drive Setup in OS9, the computer boots up no matter what PCI slot I put the Sonnet card into. Once again, thank you all very much! George
--- "Richard K. Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: George Namcam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote > Hi, > I have been running Jaguar for 6 months on this S900 > with an IBM UltraStar SCSI drive, G3 zif carrier 440 > mhz and 400+ megs RAM. > The S900 boots OS9 just > fine from the drive, but each attempt to boot OS X > using XPostFacto fails, and the computer ultimately > boots up into OS9 after timing out in the OS X boot > process. > > George, > > The problem may well be the SCSI drive. Check to > make sure of the > termination on it. I installed Jaguar on my S900 > this past week on an 80 > GB WD ATA that is on a Ahard 6260M ATA 66 card in > slot #4. Another thing > is you might have better luck using XPostFacto > 3.0.a4 which you can get > by joining the forum at > http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/ > only those that register and pay the $10.00 fee can > download it. I tried > using 2.2.5 with no luck and it went smoothly with > the latest version. > > Another thing is make sure you format the WD HD with > the drive setup in > 9.1 otherwise you will not get anywhere. I would > move the video card to > slot #2 and if you have a USB/Firewire card in the > machine remove it > until you have completed the installation. Put the > USB card in Slot #1 > and the ATA 66 card in either slot #3 or slot #4. > > Check my post on 29/Oct/03 at > http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/supermacs/List.html. > Let us know how > these suggestions work. > > R. Barker > > -- > SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> > and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | > Refurbished Drives | > Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > SuperMacs list info: > <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
