Just to be sure, I tried (a couple of times) to download and burn a copy of Darwin to CD.
The Darwin installer gave the same white stripes - so either there's a problem with my CD burner, or there's something else that causes this with a "good" disk. (Just to clarify, did you mean that you got white stripes with the bad disk, or all the time?) I've also noticed that my Mac doesn't sync with the display when entering OpenFirmware (by holding Command-Option-O-F). The monitor just claims to have no signal. > -----Original Message----- > From: "Adam Cesal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Unsupported OS X'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: PowerTowerPro nightmare - pls help! > Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 08:35:11 -0700 > > I had the same problems that you did, until I bought a new copy of osx > and it installed perfectly the first time. My first copy of OSX was bad. > And the screen with the white stripes sounds just like mine and once you > boot it goes away. My advice is get a good copy of osx. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Unsupported OS X [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Mustafa Arif > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 3:07 PM > To: Unsupported OS X > Subject: PowerTowerPro nightmare - pls help! > > Hiya, > > I've been struggling for the last few weeks to get OS X working on my > Power > Tower Pro (Maxpowr G3 / 256 MB / various SCSI HDs). I've been trying > XPostFacto and every trick I can think off. I'm now at the stage of > tearing > my hair out, burning the Power Tower and buying a shiny new G4! > > > Firstly, with XPostFacto, I couldn't get it to boot of my OS X (10.0 and > 10.1) CD ROM (Pioneer Ultraplex40 SCSI). Since I don't have an IDE > controller in my Mac (and no access to an Apple drive) I tried copying > the > contents of the CD to one of my spare hard disks (I have 3 in the > machine: > original seagate SCSI-2 2 GB, extra seagate SCSI-2 2GB, 9GB Barracuda > SCSI-3 > narrow). > > That sort of worked: I could boot off the older seagate drives but not > the > barracuda (this was fixed when version 2.2b7 was released with its > "throttling" feature). However booting is still quite slow as it seems > to > take several attempts for the kernel to find the root disk image. Also > while > I can boot the OS X 10.0 CD image, the OS X 10.1 CD image does random > things, one of the following: > > - get to the "Welcome" box on the OS X Installer and then freeze (or at > least not let me move the mouse which makes it impossible to continue > the > installer > > - get past the "Welcome" box on the OS X Installer and get as far as > picking > the target disk; at that point all the disks are greyed out and cannot > be > selected; when I hover the mouse pointer over a disk icon, the text > "-33" is > displayed on the left hand side. Since I cannot select a disk, I can't > continue. I can only go back. At this point, if at any time, I select > something from the menus the Installer Crashes and the kernel panics. > > > Anyway, that's the OS X 10.1 Update CD, the OS X 10.0 Install CD does > let me > go threw the installation process. At the end it reboots and takes me > through some wizard to configure my account. At the end of that (it > seems to > finish ok) OS X boots up but all the applications (and dock icons) look > like > folders. I understand this has been a common problem with the > installation > not being completed (or "root" being used as the administrative account > name. But I've tried installed umpteen times and got the same result. > I've > seen something one newsgroups about resolving this by deleting some > config > files, but they don't exist anywhere in my install... > > > OS X 10.1's CD readme file claims to deal with the above problem. So > since, > I was unable to install it, I thought I'd try various combinations of > replacing files on the OS 10.0 image with that from the OS 10.1 disc. In > particular I tried replacing the installing packages with their 10.1 > equivalents (and swapping mach_kernels). On each attempt the > installation of > files was successful but rebooting to complete configuration would > invariably results in some sort of error (kernel panic, or an > infinitely-rebooting sequence - depending on which files I had swapped). > > > I have really run out of ideas for how to get OS X running on my Mac. > Does > anyone have any ideas??? (I once previously got the original, non-Aqua, > OS X > Server running on this machine back in 1999...) > > > Also whenever I have got my Mac booting OS X (in any way) the screen > appears > banded. Essentially there are vertical white (or sometimes gray or > black) > stripes, around 50 pixels wide, going down the screen. These do not > overwrite what should be on the screen, instead they push everything to > the > right. So, the happy/sad Mac icon appears on the far right of the > screen. > When text is displayed by the kernel in verbose mode, the vertical bands > spread out the text, so that I can only read the left-half of the line. > The > problem disappears when it goes into GUI mode. Is this normal??? I have > the > original IXmicro Twin Turbo graphics card - I thought this was OS X > compatible??? > > > So, er... help, please! Is the Sonnet Installer likely to fare any > better? I > haven't tried it since it costs some money. Its not that I'm not > prepared to > pay for it - its just that I can't see any reason why Xpostfacto doesn't > work, so I'm not sure that Sonnet will either. (And I've wasted so much > time > already.) > > > All this hassle just to get a Java 2 implementation!! > I really feel like getting a Windoze machine right now... > > -- > Mustafa Arif > Home page: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ma499/ > Blatant plug: http://live.cgcu.net/ > > > -- > Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> > 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? 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