Jim,
Did you use OWC's XPostFacto to install OS X?
I have a set of 10.2 CDs that my beige G3 never would boot (and would
be in a world of hurt afterwards). However, using XPostFacto, I am
sucessfully running a 9.2.2 and 10.3.5 333 beige G3 desktop. I would
take some time to look at XPostFacto and the documentation provided at
OWC's site. Essentially XPostFacto takes care of changing OpenFirmware
parameters to both install OS X and boot between OS 9 and OS X. It
also compensates for the horribly buggy "Old World" OpenFirmware (2.0f
or 2.4 in the case of beige G3s).
As to resetting the machine I know I read somewhere about
disconnecting the power cable from the power supply, disconnecting the
power connector from the motherboard, removing the PRAM battery, then
holding the CUDA switch for about 5 seconds. Afterwards, let the
machine sit for 5-15 minutes (don't recall how long I was told
originally). I did this when I really host my machine trying to
install 10.2 without XPostFacto and was able to boot from a 9.1 CD and
reinstal OS 9.
Hope some of that helps.
--
Brandon in Durham, NC
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:18:52 -0700 (PDT), Jim Redman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I still have the same problem and no answers - can I
> re-post?
>
> I have a Beige G3 desktop, 266 mhz, Rev 1 (rats).
> It has 416 MB RAM (so far) and came to me secondhand
> with an original ATA Apple CD and a Maxtor 15.3 GB
> Diamondmax Plus 45 HD, plus a SCSI factory Zip and an
> added(?) Hungarian-made (for IBM, I think) SCSI HD
> that shows up as Product ID ZJCS2-18GB. I believe it
> shipped originally with OS 8.1 (got the CD with it)
> and was updated to 8.5, then 8.6 (got those too). I
> plugged in a Pioneer DVR-103MA burner and it reads CDs
> fine, so I bought a set of OS 9.22 / OS X 10.2.4
> install CDs, also secondhand: grey, from an eMac. I
> partitioned the SCSI HD, moved the OS 8.6 to the first
> part, installed OS 9 on the newly partitioned ATA
> Maxtor second part and then OS X on the first part.
> At least that was my intention. The first thing I
> tried was installing OS 9 over 8.6 on the SCSI and OS
> X on the ATA and it almost worked, but I was having
> trouble with each of the OSs recognizing the other
> drives and booting to the other systems. I finally
> decided to relegate my older software I want to run,
> to a Centris 650 with the RAM maxed and network it to
> the G3. I was about ready to go OS X only on the G3,
> maybe with an ATI Radeon 7000 to deal with the DVD
> compliance issues. BUT NOW...
> I did something that was probably stupid... thought
> the settings on the CD/DVD might be the problem with
> drive recognition (some of the details on that are
> getting fuzzy with age, it's been weeks messing with
> this), so I tried changing jumpers, even trying slave
> on CD and then HD which isn't supposed to work on
> this G3 but I was desperate, and now nothing works for
> installing OS X. I DID take notes on the original
> MaxtorHD/AppleCD settings but lost them! The HD is on
> the ATA 0 bus, or channel, and reports ID 0; the
> Pioneer is on ATA 1, ID 0, and I don't see anything to
> jumper the ID on the CD. I am given to understand
> they should both be set to Master, and certainly Slave
> and ChannelSelect setting don't work, they create all
> kinds of "No bootable" and "can't load" tiny messages
> on blank grey screens that stop there. But now, even
> both on Master, and after multiple PRAM zaps and a
> CUDA goosing (and CUDA seemed to confuse it more), I'm
> still have CD boot/install problems. It was able to
> recognize 8.6 on the SCSI and run Install for 9.22
> from the CD onto the second half of the ATA, but that
> doesn't work for the OSX Install. Help? Is anyone
> intimately familiar with the jumpers on these drives
> on this G3? And with how to straighten this out??
>
> Can anyone tell me if using model-specific OS
> versions and just deleting or disabling extensions you
> don't need, is a problem? I also tried installing the
> 8.1 on my Centris, and it seems to run everything I
> need it to, but the slightest problem, such as
> inserting an OS X -hosed floppy, will seize it solid.
> OS 7.6.1 shrugs the same events off ("Initialize this
> disk?").
>
> Jim the Redman
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