beachycove
Well-known member
I am having some trouble installing a system on a CF card installed in a 2300c via an IDE-CF adapter (Chinese & utterly generic).
The attempt thus far, which has now been repeated three times, has been to install MacOS 8.5, from an OEM G3 desktop software CD. The installation, via a Duodock with a scsi cd-rom attached, goes just fine. No problems are encountered in initializing the CF card as an HFS+ drive, no problems in installing the system, and finally you shut down and all seems well.
Then on ejecting the 2300c and rebooting, the system freezes just before extensions begin to load. It will boot with extensions off (via Shift key), and that way it works just fine. However, and here is the peculiar thing, even if then you turn off all extensions manually via the Extensions Manager Control panel and reboot normally, it freezes at the same point as before. Behaviour is just the same in the Dock as well.
Is the trouble the software CD I am using, which maybe is engineered in such a way as not to allow a usable system installation on anything other than a G3? Or is the CF card somehow confusing the system? I am baffled.
Any ideas?
The attempt thus far, which has now been repeated three times, has been to install MacOS 8.5, from an OEM G3 desktop software CD. The installation, via a Duodock with a scsi cd-rom attached, goes just fine. No problems are encountered in initializing the CF card as an HFS+ drive, no problems in installing the system, and finally you shut down and all seems well.
Then on ejecting the 2300c and rebooting, the system freezes just before extensions begin to load. It will boot with extensions off (via Shift key), and that way it works just fine. However, and here is the peculiar thing, even if then you turn off all extensions manually via the Extensions Manager Control panel and reboot normally, it freezes at the same point as before. Behaviour is just the same in the Dock as well.
Is the trouble the software CD I am using, which maybe is engineered in such a way as not to allow a usable system installation on anything other than a G3? Or is the CF card somehow confusing the system? I am baffled.
Any ideas?