It's been tough going. I needed to do a couple restarts while booted from my Firewire drive w/10.3.1 and they were fine, albeit ugly in the verbose dialog. Then somehow I lost it and ended up back in 9.2.2. I tried XPF 3.0a9, but it was a disaster. Took nearly a whole day to get back up and booted via Firewire.
Here's my method learned through lots of trial & error:
First, you have to have 10.3 on a local drive, perhaps your main drive or another. Going between 9.x and 10.3 has always worked for me using XPF 3.0a8, so getting into the local 10.3 isn't the problem. It's booting the 10.3 Firewire that's the trick.
You can 'clone' to the Firewire using Carbon Copy Cloner, or perhaps install with XPF 3.0a8+? I cloned, and it booted, but when it wouldn't reboot, after hours of frustration I cheated and did an archive reinstall from a supported iBook via Firewire. Once you have 10.3 on the Firewire drive, this is where I've had problems trying to boot from Firewire.
My method is to "try" to restart using XPF 3.0a8 booted in any System, but preferably the local 10.3. This won't boot for me, but will install the 3.0a8 extensions. I tried all the possible helper drives (I have 4 partitions on 2 local drives), and only the local 10.3 which I was booted in worked for me. Upon panic, I reboot via ' option' and get back to the local 10.3 drive, and then use XPF 3.0a3 (yes 3.0a3, the NON-panther version?). It evidently rewrites some of the extensions, but there must be critical ones in the 3.0a8 that aren't overwritten, and from here is where I get it to boot from the Firewire into 10.3.x. It seems crazy, but for some reason it's critical for the initiating drive to be running 3.0a3 to be booted in OS 10.3 ONLY, and not 10.2.x or 9.x. When I tried repeatedly from these other Systems it was unbootable. The reason I even tried 3.0a3 is that only 3.0a3 & 3.0a9 will even launch for me in either 10.2.x or 10.3.x, so there were very limited options available on the OS X side, and nothing was working on the OS 9 side. I have no clue why this works, I just know it works for me. Kris Tilford
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