Lombard/Pismo install problem
by martinlangley from LinuxQuestions.org on (#56SXE)
Hi all, this may sound a bit strange but I'm sure you guys will come up to the mark.
I have a powerpc based laptop which has performed faultlessly for me for the past decade and has survived the transition from Mac OS9 TO OS X together with replacement hard disks etc.
The present problem has me stumped, however. I have a new hard drive in the bay ready for a fresh OS X install of Leopard or Tiger or any OS X which supports PPC. I have tried every which way to get it to boot, from holding down the option key and trying to use a CD to booting via open firmware and installing from a USB. The furthest I have got (by any method) results in a brief "XCOFF" message being displayed followed by a couple of memory address locations and then the system hangs.
Does this sound familiar to anybody? What surprises me is that the machine is quite happy to POST, - I get the chime and it switches into Open Firmware on opt + cmd + O + F so the problem would seem unlikely to be anything fundamental, but I simply do not know what to try next.
I'm sure one of you guys will know a fix.
The attached images show what happens, the first is the command string to boot from the usb, -
boot ud:3,\System\Library\CoreServices\BootX
The second is the resulting XCOFF message
Best regards
Martin
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I have a powerpc based laptop which has performed faultlessly for me for the past decade and has survived the transition from Mac OS9 TO OS X together with replacement hard disks etc.
The present problem has me stumped, however. I have a new hard drive in the bay ready for a fresh OS X install of Leopard or Tiger or any OS X which supports PPC. I have tried every which way to get it to boot, from holding down the option key and trying to use a CD to booting via open firmware and installing from a USB. The furthest I have got (by any method) results in a brief "XCOFF" message being displayed followed by a couple of memory address locations and then the system hangs.
Does this sound familiar to anybody? What surprises me is that the machine is quite happy to POST, - I get the chime and it switches into Open Firmware on opt + cmd + O + F so the problem would seem unlikely to be anything fundamental, but I simply do not know what to try next.
I'm sure one of you guys will know a fix.
The attached images show what happens, the first is the command string to boot from the usb, -
boot ud:3,\System\Library\CoreServices\BootX
The second is the resulting XCOFF message
Best regards
Martin
Attached Thumbnails