[theear]

XPOSTFACTO UPGRADE TO OSX 10.3 ON POWERMAC 8500. KERNEL PANIC.
Hello all,
I am trying to install 10.3 on my mac 8500 using Xpostfacto.
I am currently running OS 9.1. In the 8500 I have 2 PCI cards. One is a video card (the Fuse from Aurora) and the other is a Macally USB 2.0 Firewire card. My only working mouse is connected to the USB card. I also have a MAXPowr G4 400Mhz CPU upgrade card installed.
The original 2GB hard drive has 9.1 on it and I havent touched it. There is also an internal 18GB SCSI Barracuda hard drive. I have reformatted this drive in system 9.1s Drive Setup in preparation for the install.
Each time Xpostfacto restarts after the install, I get the OSX splash screen, then a Kernel version 7.2.0. panic: We are hanging here.
Any ideas how to successfully install 10.3 on this system?
Suggestions I have heard so far includeReformat the drive with an earlier version of Drive setup. Remove the PCI cards and the upgrade card and put the original CPU back for the install, then when 10.3 is on the drive, put everything back one card at a time. (one issue with this is I must minimally leave the USB card in place to have mouse control.)
Before doing more surgery I thought I should find out what info there might be out there concerning my problem. If there is any use, I have a picture of the Kernel Panic screen.
Thank You for your kind help.

Theear

[lemac]

Don't put in the original CPU as 10.2 and later doesn't work with anything below a G3. Have you tried formatting with the Apple utility? Removing PCI cards isn't a bad idea, as you want to focus on getting the thing to work before features. Also, try installing OS X on a different partition then your OS 9 folder.

[SmilesLots]

Is your computer one of those that you can only install X.3 on the first 8 gb partition?

[theear]

I have a powermac 8500 and it origanlly had a 2GB drive only. This drive has my system 9.1 on it, and since it actually works, I'd hate to mess with it. I was attempting to install system 10 on a Seagate Barracuda 18GB SCSI drive which is internally installed. I have tried partitioning this drive in different ways including less than 8GB chunks. No go. Same kernel panic. Do you have any advice?

[Hatter]

10.3.0 would see many SCSI drives as ATA, including UW or LVD running on ATTO PSC. I would stay with Drive Setup 2.07 (part of 9.2.2) or 2.04 but can't hurt to use Jaguar if you have it.
I would remove the USB card for the install and just rely on ADB until updated. RAM is always iffy but I assume you have only 128MB DIMMs and removed any older and slower RAM...

[MadGoat]

I know this is an old thread...
But Im trying to install 10.2 on a G3 400 upgraded power tower pro.
Every time I restart after seting up xpostfacto, the computer hangs while booting in verbose mode at a line that says:
sixty6: registry not a registerd member registry() (or something very close to that)

Does anyone have an Idea what that means?!?
Thanks

[Nobody]

What version of XpostFacto are you using? Version 3.1 is the latest, I believe.

I installed Panther v10.3.9 without a hitch on my PowerTower 180e, running a Powerlogix G3 750GX 1GHz PCI board, ATI Rage 128, Adaptec 29160 SCSI card, USB/Firewire PCI card, 40 gig Maxtor SCSI drive and a 120 Maxtor firewire drive, 512MB ram. This machine really performs well using panther.
If your version of XpostFacto is registered you can access the "offical" XpostFacto forums, and get an incredible amount of help and support. I have never had a question that was not answered and a lot of good advice from others who love to tinker with these old "legacy" machines.
This the home of XpostFacto and Other World Computing (OWC).
http://forum.macsales.com/

[RFM]

Try,...
1) A different video card (ATI Radeon or higher).
2) Install a fresh copy of OS 9.2.2 on a 7.9 GB or
lower partition, then OS X on the same partition.
3) Put your OS 9 boot system on a different partition.
4) Un-Interleave your RAM.
5) Try a G4 card from Sonnet.
Good luck.

[Nobody]

I agree with the previous post with exeption of the Sonnet G4 800 PCI card, unless your programs need the altvec engine, in the G4. I had the Sonnet card for two years before upgrading to the PowerLogix G3 750 1GHz PCI card. This card retails for $100 less and it really outperforms the Sonnet card hands down. The 1 meg of L2 cache running at the full 1 GHz, really makes up for the slow bus speeds of the PCI machines 7300-9600 and clones. The L3 cache on the Sonnet does not make up the speed difference.
Steve