I just tried to install OS X on my PowerTower Pro (Sonnet 700). I busted out Jaguar and the most recent version of XPostFacto. I normally boot from an old 2 gig SCSI hard drive, but I set XPostFacto to install onto a brand new 80 gig IDE drive on an SIIG card. I put the OS X CD in a generic IDE CD reader that I have on the card's other IDE channel. XPostFacto restarted the machine, and I got a circle with a line through it and that was all.
So I tried it again and I held down command-v and it gave me the Apple logo on a grey screen, just as the CD reader spun down. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks in advance.
This sounds like the boot-up sequence for XPF can not read the CD Rom. The way XPF works is to install a boot program for OS X on the destination HD, then restart using that program to run OS X and the installer from the CD Rom. The first boot with circle and line would indicate that the CD could not be read, while the second is when it tried to boot OS X from the start-up drive and got confused. If you have your original SCSI CD drive (I think the PTPs came with SCSIs) I'd suggest installing it temporarily and try installing OS X from it.
Also, if you might have to partition your HD with a partition slightly smaller than 8 Gig for OS X to be installed. This is a limit in the installer due to a firmware bug in the Apple beige G3s where they can not boot from an IDE partition greater than 8 Gig. The installer thinks XPF machines with IDE cards have the problem (they don't) and wont do the install. If OS X thinks your HD is a SCSI drive, you don't have the problem, but if it reads past the firmware you will. I don't know if it does with the SIIG IDE card. This issue would not affect the boot up sequence, you will hit it in the installer itself.
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