Why can't I install OS 10.2.0 on a Maxtor 160gb drive in a G3?
Submitted by Peter Frederick on March 18, 2006 - 12:34am.
PowerPC Macs
Hey guys:
I'm stumped -- I got a used Maxtor 160GB drive off eBay to replace the nearly full 6G drive in my Beige G3 MT. Plugged it in as slave on the cable with the old drive in place, partitioned to have a 7.9G first partion, a 76G second and a 40G or so third partition (since they all have to be less than 120G).
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the drive over after just using the OS (it failed, of course). Booted just fine when I selected it in Preferences, so I though I was good to go.
Swapped the jumpers to make it the master, and it won't boot. Get an Open Firmware error of "can't open" (this happens sometimes with the old drive too -- solution is to boot 9.2 off the SCSI drive installed also and re-select as boot drive). Sometimes I also get "no HFS+ boot partion found).
This is driving me nuts -- I've tried all the possible combinations of master and slave, I've plugged the new drive into the CD-ROM cable -- both jumpered as master -- and even tried to install OS x from the installation disks.
That works more or less -- it always crashes about the time the display would go to screen saver. Screen goes off, computer freezes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated -- I'd love to get a couple of the disks out of this thing (three hard drives installed at the moment). Even with a Beige, this shouldn't be such a problem!
Thanks in advance!
Peter