Hi all.
I've got a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet that i've been upgrading for the past few weeks. I finally had it all together, installed OS X 10.2 Jaguar, updated it to 10.2.8, loaded up some updated software and all was well. I installed OS 9.1 for classic and OS 9 booting.
It had been working perfectly as far as I could tell, but when I was working on it last night, something must have happened.
Current symptoms (described below):
1) Cannot boot into OS X when selected as startup disk
2) Keyboard unresponsive to most key commands during boot
3) Many permissions errors cropped up overnight with 10.2
I installed some PC card drivers and updated a whole lot of stuff on Jaguar, then went into startup disk and selected the OS 9 partition. Booted into OS 9 just fine.
So I go to boot into OS X. Selected the startup disk control panel on OS 9, selected the appropriate partition and system folder for Jaguar, and hit restart.
Boot chime, but instead of booting into OS X, back into OS 9 it goes. I restarted again, this time trying holding down option to select the boot partition. Nothing happened. I tried the startup disk control repeatedly, nothing stops it from going into OS 9. I also tried using the keyboard command to bypass the startup disk with OS 9 selected, but it gives me the no startup disk icon. Startup Disks always recognizes the OS X partition and system folder, though.
I've restarted literally dozens of times, reinstalled OS9, archived & reinstalled OS X. Neither helped after the first reboot.
Further keyboard issues cropped up, however.
While the key combos for resetting the PMU and PRAM function properly,
1) I cannot get the computer to let me select the boot disk by pressing option during boot
2) I cannot access Open Firmware
3) I cannot boot into single user mode
4) I cannot start up in safe mode or verbose mode
This was a clean format, partition, and install when I created it a few days ago.
Another possible issue is that it automatically boots from CD when the 10.2 install disk is in the computer even when I don't hit the C key.
One more symptom I can think of is that while OS 9 has always worked flawlessly on it, OS X was the real recent addition and it is OS X that does not function properly. Prior to reinstalling, I ran a permissions verify and repair on the OS X partition. I had just repaired permissions last night, but when I ran it from Disk Utility on the 10.2 CD, it detected a large number of errors in what I think are pretty important areas... there were a half dozen permissions differences in the filesystems/HFS+ folder, others in some rather significant sounding things, including some high level user and system folders, the quicktime plugin, and even at "."
The HDD passed a disk verify, however.
Needless to say I'm worried. Suggestions are appreciated, I'm going to try a fresh install on a different HDD.
I've got a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet that i've been upgrading for the past few weeks. I finally had it all together, installed OS X 10.2 Jaguar, updated it to 10.2.8, loaded up some updated software and all was well. I installed OS 9.1 for classic and OS 9 booting.
It had been working perfectly as far as I could tell, but when I was working on it last night, something must have happened.
Current symptoms (described below):
1) Cannot boot into OS X when selected as startup disk
2) Keyboard unresponsive to most key commands during boot
3) Many permissions errors cropped up overnight with 10.2
I installed some PC card drivers and updated a whole lot of stuff on Jaguar, then went into startup disk and selected the OS 9 partition. Booted into OS 9 just fine.
So I go to boot into OS X. Selected the startup disk control panel on OS 9, selected the appropriate partition and system folder for Jaguar, and hit restart.
Boot chime, but instead of booting into OS X, back into OS 9 it goes. I restarted again, this time trying holding down option to select the boot partition. Nothing happened. I tried the startup disk control repeatedly, nothing stops it from going into OS 9. I also tried using the keyboard command to bypass the startup disk with OS 9 selected, but it gives me the no startup disk icon. Startup Disks always recognizes the OS X partition and system folder, though.
I've restarted literally dozens of times, reinstalled OS9, archived & reinstalled OS X. Neither helped after the first reboot.
Further keyboard issues cropped up, however.
While the key combos for resetting the PMU and PRAM function properly,
1) I cannot get the computer to let me select the boot disk by pressing option during boot
2) I cannot access Open Firmware
3) I cannot boot into single user mode
4) I cannot start up in safe mode or verbose mode
This was a clean format, partition, and install when I created it a few days ago.
Another possible issue is that it automatically boots from CD when the 10.2 install disk is in the computer even when I don't hit the C key.
One more symptom I can think of is that while OS 9 has always worked flawlessly on it, OS X was the real recent addition and it is OS X that does not function properly. Prior to reinstalling, I ran a permissions verify and repair on the OS X partition. I had just repaired permissions last night, but when I ran it from Disk Utility on the 10.2 CD, it detected a large number of errors in what I think are pretty important areas... there were a half dozen permissions differences in the filesystems/HFS+ folder, others in some rather significant sounding things, including some high level user and system folders, the quicktime plugin, and even at "."
The HDD passed a disk verify, however.
Needless to say I'm worried. Suggestions are appreciated, I'm going to try a fresh install on a different HDD.