beige G3 refusing Jaguar

[Anonymous]

I have severe trouble installing Jaguar Server on three beige G3 Desktops. They bott up fine from the CD and I can begin the installation process.
Two of them get through to the end and reboot as advertised. When doing th standard post install reboot both of them hang at the openFirmware telling me “can’t open: “. The bootdrive is correctly set in the OF! I’ve verified this, they just can’t open the boot drive. (Stock 4GB IDE drive…) 384MB RAM, G3/266 no OC! The third G3 usually goes black and CPU halt in the middle of installing. It just dies, taking down the installation and the en0 interface. Again Stock beige G3/266 with 384MB RAM, 4GB IDE HD. All three machines worked flawlessly with Mac OS X 10.1 Server for a long time. Jaguar is giving me headaches… Any ideas?
Thanks pepi

[Schuckert]

I had the same problem with a G3/266/DT, when installing 10.2 Server. The solution was to put the hard disc in a G4 and install the server software there instead. When it was done I simply put the disc back in the G3 and started it up. No problem whatsoever. It’s been running flawlessly for a month now.
You may have to reselect the network interface again, since OS X seems to recognize by name, not by actual slot.

[Anonymous]

I had the same issues as the original poster.

To get past the screen going black during install I had to:
1. wipe the partition (I used the Disk Utility on the Jaguar install CD)
2. *Successfully* install an older version of server (10.0.4 in my case)
3. let Jaguar Server *attempt* to upgrade the previous installation (it failed)
4. reboot and using Jaguar Install CD Disk Utility, wipe (not partition) the partition.
5. switch back to the Installer and let it install a ‘New’ OS X Server installation

This (after 3 days of trying) finally got me through the installation. I also duped the Install CD and used the copy – maybe made a difference, I don’t know, but it was the only install out of about 16 attempts that worked.

To get past the Assistant hanging:
1. removed my en01 ethernet card
2. removed the original 64MB RAM stick and 1 of my 256MB sticks, leaving 1 256MB
3. reset the machine using the CUDO reset button

I did all of this removing stuff over several attempts…

Hope this helps,

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