minnes

Hi
Im trying to install OSx on a Blue and white G3 powermac with a 20 GB hard disk and 384MB ram
The Jag disk I have from my Powwermac G4 MDD 1.25 GH
and it goes through the install then upon restart it hangs on a grey screen with the mouse frozen just before the welcome to osx screen.
I did the firmware upgrade. and reset pram anything else.

Thanks very much

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Mark Innes

MacDoc

Pull one or other of the RAM sticks then try.

Do you have a Zip installed??

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Ryankop

Ugh... last time that happened to my G5 it went to the repair shop for 3 weeks!

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minnes

NO Zip, but it does have some odd network card with lots of ports.
This machine works perfect in 8.6 or 9.2
Will try without the network card

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Terry O'Leary

Instead of the grey apple on the white background you can actually get a "play by play description of the boot process". This can be helpful in diagnosing what is wrong when you boot up.

Keep Cmd-s pressed down at bootup until you see text appearing on the screen.

Good Luck - Terry

minnes

Thanks Terry
I will try that and report back
By the way I tried putting 10.3.9 on a 20gb drive in my G4, and it would boot my G4, then putting it in the G3 Blue, but it would go into a commandline single user mode. I tried fsck and it said it was ok, restarting just repeated the same.

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Mark Innes

MacDoc

Sounds like RAM or a card. Keep us posted. Rev B???

minnes

IT"S A 400 MHZ UNIT
i think its a rev A
No prob booting in 9

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iMatt

I always thought the "first 8 gigs" limitation (where OS X must be on the first 8 gigs of the drive) applied to beige G3 boxes (and Wallstreet powerbooks), but there's also a vague memory that it also applies to Rev A B&W models. So, try reformatting with two partitions: one 7 gigs, the other with the remainder, then install your OS on the 7-gig volume.

MacDoc

If it's a REV A then it could be a bunch of things including the ide controller which has known corruption problems.

No harm in trying the 8 gig partition trick.

You could try plugging into the CD port as well.

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