It has been said not all SuperMacs will take OS X. Here's my tale of woe. The install of Jaguar with XpostFacto on my 2nd S900 was rough and the initial startup screen was a checkerboard pattern. This disappeared in later boots. There were some stability issues and the more I tinkered, the worse it got. This was on a 40 GB IBM HD. In short, all the crashes led to losing a 2 GB WD OEM HD, an innocent bystander.
I decided to accept defeat and start all over. Reformated first and I was able to boot with the OS 9.1 install CD and partition the IBM 40 GB HD according to method. When I tried to install the minimal OS 9.1, the S900 locked up. Reboot, zap pram, do a CUDA, install the Sonnet G4 pram floppy and try the OS 9.1 install CD again. Locks up again. I tried the pull all ram, zap pram and put all ram back. Locks up again but not always at the same spot. So I disconnect everything, push CUDA and take out battery and all cards overnight. Put in battery, push CUDA. After all this, the OS 9.1 CD will sometimes get half way started and then the screen freezes. Zap pram, push CUDA (10-30 sec.) and still the OS 9.1 install disk will not load! Most of the time, the CD will freeze at the smiling Mac icon or at the Mac OS 9.1 splash screen and only rarely gets half loaded (which is the way I feel now). The Sonnet G4 pram floppy has Apple's First Aid and I was able to repair the IBM 40 GB HD. This didn't help as I STILL can't boot and install OS 9.1 again. What I am tempted to do is take this HD and install it in my working S900 and install the system software that way. Then I could put this drive back in the stalled machine. Will this work? Any ideas why this S900 is freezing up? What am I missing? Thanks. Stalled at a primitive level, Eric -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
