I have a beige G3 and I'm trying to install Panther using XPostFacto. I can start the install from within XPF, and after a few seconds the system reboots. However, it doesn't get much further! Usually, when booting into OS 9, I get the "happy Mac" after a few seconds. When trying to boot OS X, on the other hand, I get a completely blank screen for around 15 seconds, followed by the message "no bootable HFS partition". About a minute later I get a grey screen with a mouse, but nothing else.
If I reboot without the OS X CD in the drive, I get the same problem (15 second delay etc) but with a different message ("cannot OPEN", I think it was). I can reboot from the OS 9 CD and set the Startup Disk back to the hard drive, which fixes the problem and lets me boot back into OS 9 again.
After doing some fiddling around, I discovered that the problem occurs when I try to boot from the OS X CD, regardless of whether I use XPostFacto or not. Does XPF usually get invoked later on in the process?
Has anyone experienced this kind of thing before? Any ideas? Thanks
If I reboot without the OS X CD in the drive, I get the same problem (15 second delay etc) but with a different message ("cannot OPEN", I think it was). I can reboot from the OS 9 CD and set the Startup Disk back to the hard drive, which fixes the problem and lets me boot back into OS 9 again.
After doing some fiddling around, I discovered that the problem occurs when I try to boot from the OS X CD, regardless of whether I use XPostFacto or not. Does XPF usually get invoked later on in the process?
Has anyone experienced this kind of thing before? Any ideas? Thanks