When I decided to take the plunge and attempt to install Panther on an S900 with a Sonnet G4 450 upgrade, I tried it out first with a very basic installation on a just-erased 2 gig external SCSI drive, and it worked with no problems. Encouraged by that, I tried an installation on my main drive, an 18 gig internal SCSI already running OS X 10.2, and ran into all sorts of failures, including starting up to a gray screen with a "no go" symbol, and what I suppose must have been the fabled kernel panic - a black screen full of verbose messages, ending with something like "Panic. We stop now."
Fortunately, the original internal 2 gig drive has OS 9.1, so I was always able to get started again. Finally, following the lead of the original successful installation, I backed up everything on the 18 gig drive to CDs and erased it. The next installation worked perfectly, and the system has been running fine ever since.
For whatever it may be worth...
- Eric
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