yo folks,
I did it,
I got me a similar rev c box to fiddle around before messing my server with the panther
it worked flawlessly with restoring a fresh 10.3.0 I had on a firewire disk - installing from the Panther DVD dont worked as the installer told me something bout no supported system, xpf told that no hfs wrappers were on my target disk - what I partitioned with 9.2 - but anyway
what helped most was the advice from Michael Thibault from this list:
do u guys use the onBoard Video on the G3 B Revisions ?
this is what I wait for getting fixed before fiddling with the Panther again on my server
I have this dark-screen-windowserver-problem and no free PCI slot for a video card
I believe I do. This would be the RagePro, where the ROM is the 77D.45F1 version? If so, then yes. I use XPF 3.0b1, check the Patched RagePRo option, and boot. I used to have the black screen problem but that seems largely to have been solved by taking the advice of a friend in the same boat. To quote him liberally:
ok, I've found the cause of the screen goes black problem.
Check and see if your kernel spews out the following messages while booting (you can do this by typing "dmesg" once it's booted):
extension "com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily" cannot be found can't determine immediate dependencies for extension com.macsales.iokit.OpenG3AIODisplay Can't determine dependencies for com.macsales.iokit.OpenG3AIODisplay. extension "com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport" cannot be found can't determine immediate dependencies for extension com.macsales.iokit.GossamerNDRVSupport Can't determine dependencies for com.macsales.iokit.GossamerNDRVSupport. Couldn't alloc class "OpenG3AIODisplay" Couldn't alloc class "GossamerNDRVSupport"
I noticed that I get the screen goes black problem when these messages are present and I don't when they aren't.
If you get the messages, it means that the system doesn't know enough about these XpostFacto kernel extensions. To teach the system, do the following as root:
cd /System/Library/Extensions kextcache -k GossamerNDRVSupport.kext kextcache -k OpenG3AIODisplay.kext
and reboot.
Once booted, those messages should no longer be present.
Do not select the "use old NDRV" option in xpostFacto. Only select the "use PatchedRagePro" option. But make sure to modify the options before doing the kextcache thing because it seems that the problem occurs when XpostFacto makes changes in the /System/Library/Extensions folder. I think you can emulate the problem by simply doing "touch /System/Library/Extensions".
for any reason
cd /System/Library/Extensions kextcache -k GossamerNDRVSupport.kext kextcache -k OpenG3AIODisplay.kext
didnt werked on 10.3.0, it gave me the same "Can't determine dependencies for" errors in the boot log, but when doing it on 10.3.7 it worked.
I did the combo 10.3.7 update on 10.3.0
I made those killer tests often like repairing permissions what made even Jaguar run into the black screen problem when not pulling rage pro drivers - but it seems Panther worked with accelerated onBoard graphics now - what gives better GUI response
not too important for a server but it's nice too think about the unsupported system runs smoother than the supported one :-D
btw, my nice Asante 590 NIC quit working with Panther, the Jaguar drivers don't run with the Panther - had to replace it with a Intel Pro 100s NIC what runs without any extra driver
it was for years the best NIC around in my setup... If someone knows how to panther it... ;-)
hth Sven
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