Hello everyone. Recently bought an old beige PowerMac G3/300 desktop.
According to the system profiler, the ROM revision is $77D.45F2 (which
corresponds to Rev. 3 according to the LEM page on this model), it is
equipped with 192MB of RAM, and is currently running OS 9.2.2. I am
attempting to install OS X 10.2, but whenever I click the Restart
button shown in the splash screen, I get the following error: "Startup
Disk was unable to select the install CD as the startup disk. (-2)".
LEM's page on this model series states that the beige G3/300 cannot
boot from the CD-ROM drive unless the jumper is set to master; I
checked the jumpers, and it was already set as such. Any ideas as to
why I would still be getting this sort of error, even if all the
proper criteria seemed to have been met? Thanks in advance.
-Adam
Hello, & welcome to the wonderful world of trying to get X on a
beige...been there, done that just the previous week. (Now
successfully, but it was balky at times, too.)
A few thoughts: Are you using the retail (all models) installer, or a
model-specific disk? (I used an iMac installer set, successfully, in
the end.)
Is your *hard drive* set as master as well, on the other bus? Maybe
it's saying that because now, after you've installed, the installer is
looking for a bootable drive somewhere, but is only seeing a CD-ROM
drive as master -- which, of course, won't do for the next session.
Keep trying, X can be difficult at times, & about the most amazingly
petty things. Fortunately for me, it liked all my installed RAM, &
hardware, & the CD wasn't too scratched for it's taste -- all problems
I've heard about with others...
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Bill
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