On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 04:38 AM, Eric J. Leopold wrote: > 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 > > --
Eric, This sounds like a RAM issue. How much is installed and is it interleaved? Sorry, I'm not familiar with your setup can you describe it at the time of install ? IDE or SCSI, PCI slots, Processor and video card and so on. it would help. Also, what version of XpostFacto are you using? I personally have not had success with IDE, I installed to SCSI and "cloned to IDE" with Carbon Copy Cloner or Apple Restore. I have a 2.1 & 9.1 IBM SCSI drive to initiate, then I move to my larger IDE drives. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
