Its a 6 Gb HD so you may be onto something as the other machines were
9GB and 12Gb and they run panther fine. It has the latest firmware for
G3 towers, 1.1 and I'm trying to install the basic 10.3 from CD but on
some of my CD installers causes its open firmware console to launch. I
have an 8.5 Gb model in the post :)
- Christian
On 09/03/2006, at 10:03 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote:
On 10/03/2006, at 12:07 AM, Kerryn Kotz wrote:
Can anyone tell me why my G3 300mhz unit with 256MB RAM doesn't boot
on Mac OS X start up disc or copies on the HD? It just sits with the
Apple Logo and spinning disc thing :P
A couple of possible causes;
How large is you HD? Some models of G3s have issues with Mac OS X,
where the OS *MUST* be contained within the first 8GB of hard drive
space - so the best way to ensure that is to partition the drive so
you have a 8GB partition as the FIRST partition (and then the rest of
the drive can be as you like) and install Mac OS into that.
But based on you description of not actually booting, you probably
need to install some of the Firmware updates.
I think you can do this by running Software Update under Mac OS 9 and
should tell you which updates you need.
If not, see the following;
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117>
If you are trying to install 10.3.2 then checkout this Technote;
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25793>
and
<http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25776>
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