Forcing Jaguar on an 8600/300

[bdallas]

Hello,

I am at my wits end trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Perhaps a more experienced eye than myself can see what I am doing wrong. I have a PowerMac 8600/300, original 604ev cpu card, 160mb RAM. Stock everything else. I have tried XPostFacto many times to no avail. 10.1 will kernel panic before the installer can start. However, 10.2 will boot the installer, continute with no errors, but rebooting after install gives a blank screen with nothing, no verbose output. Nothing. I've tried a different drive, no I can get it to install, and then boot immediately to the "Prohibited" symbol. I can't figure it out.

Thanks for any input.

 

[Unknown_K]

Hello,
I am at my wits end trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Perhaps a more experienced eye than myself can see what I am doing wrong. I have a PowerMac 8600/300, original 604ev cpu card, 160mb RAM. Stock everything else. I have tried XPostFacto many times to no avail. 10.1 will kernel panic before the installer can start. However, 10.2 will boot the installer, continute with no errors, but rebooting after install gives a blank screen with nothing, no verbose output. Nothing. I've tried a different drive, no I can get it to install, and then boot immediately to the "Prohibited" symbol. I can't figure it out.

Thanks for any input.

Have you tried a PCI video card that supports OSX 10.2?

 

[Outlander]

Throttle down the cache or disable it to install. After throttling the cache all the way down I was able to get OSX to boot and run before my 9600 bit the dust

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Also, OS X is *VERY* flaky with even slightly less-than-perfect RAM. Try with the minimum number of sticks you can; preferably Apple-original. Jaguar is willing to install on a system with as little as 96 MB.

 

[bdallas]

Thanks for the help! It is now installed and running (No sound at all in X strangely..) A fresh install of 9 on a new drive, partitioned into two parts, with Jaguar on the second seemed to do the trick. It's actually surprisingly running at a pretty good speed. Even Opera 9.64 is doing rather well on it. Long live the 8600!

 

[protocol7]

If you want to see an old pic of Jaguar running on my 5400 click here

 

[Osgeld]

har har

 

[Outlander]

If you want to see an old pic of Jaguar running on my 5400 click here

:lol:

 

[bdallas]

Update: Jaguar is running very well, even things like Opera 9.64 suprisingly. The only issue that keeps me back in OS 9 is the fact that I have no sound under Jaguar. The XpostFacto website says it should work, but I get nothing. "No output Device" is what is stated in the control panel. Any tips on getting sound up?

 

[Bunsen]

Do you have a USB card? You could try a generic class-compliant external USB audio device

 

[bdallas]

Sound through a USB dongle like device does work fine. Only other issue is with a larger drive I installed. It is an SCA Quantum Atlas IV with an 80 to 50 pin adapter, jumpered for SCSI ID 1. Mac OS 9 will install no problem after initializing, but restarting it just blinks the floppy with question mark. Booting off the original drive doesnt show the drive, it is listed in the drive setup as even with auto mount checked. A quick command-M mounts the drive no problem? Any idea as to this strange behavior?