>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.
Thanks for your reply. I used the latest version of XpostFacto 2.2.4. I have a Sonnet Tempo A66 PCI card to which the IBM 40GB drive is attached. It is not a ram issue as the Sonnet G4 Pram restore floppy boots with 490 MB of ram OK. If it were ram problems, the floppy would not boot the S900. All the ram is the same. Here it is a bright and sunny Sunday but a black cloud hangs over my S900. Overnight I again pulled all boards, power cords and battery. I did the CUDA dance, put everything back and the system is still the same. It will boot to the Sonnet G4 pram restore disk. If I have a system disk in when I boot with the floppy, the system disk shows on the desktop as do all the partitions of the HD. But this is as far as we can go as no amount of CUDA pressing or op.-Apple-p,r keys pram zapping brings any change in this corpse. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
