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Michael Posz

Q: Upgrade issues on Lombard to OS X 10.4 Tiger using XPostfacto

I am trying to upgrade my lombard to OS X 10.4 tiger but it keeps crashing. When it gets to Synchronizing, it starts copying extensions.mkext and then crashes saying there are extension issues of some sort. Anybody else running 10.4 on a lombard with XPostfacto? And help with getting this to work correctly? Anything special that needed to be done before upgrading? I am running OS X 10.2.8 currently on the machine with 320mb of ram and a 12gb hard drive and a DVD rom drive.

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Mike

Powerbook G3 Lombard, Mac OS X (10.2.x), G4 Tower - Mac OS X - 733mhz

Posted on Mar 5, 2007 5:02 PM

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Q: Upgrade issues on Lombard to OS X 10.4 Tiger using XPostfacto

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  • by jpl,

    jpl jpl Mar 5, 2007 8:07 PM in response to Michael Posz
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    Mar 5, 2007 8:07 PM in response to Michael Posz
    Michael,

    I can't recall the exact procedure when using XPostFacto...it has been awhile, but after you have booted to the Tiger DVD, do you have the option to perform an Archive & Install instead of updating your existing 10.2.8?
  • by Michael Posz,

    Michael Posz Michael Posz Mar 5, 2007 10:46 PM in response to jpl
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    Mar 5, 2007 10:46 PM in response to jpl
    I never get to that point. I start XPostfacto, and the screen comes up showing the hard drive, 2 options to restart in, OS X and OS 9 (Which is not on the laptop anyways) so I leave it on OS X, there is also a button that says restart now in this area. Then on the bottom it says NVRAM options which I left alone. When I insert the install DVD is shows up in the XPostfacto window between the 2 previous options and says select install CD and a button there that says install from cd.when I press that button a box comes up that says "Are you sure you want to install Mac OS X now?" and below that it says " your computer will restart from Mac OS X Install DVD, and install Mac OS X 10.4 to my hard drive. I select install and it starts installing extensions, and updating extensions. Then it comes to a new window that says synchronizing and usually this is where it would bomb out with the error message in my original message. I was going through the actions as I was writing this and it passed that spot now and said it was going to restart with the OS X dvd, but I walked away for a minute and when i came back there is a new message here. because of a problem, installing Mac OS X could not be sompleted. In the log it says Thread 0 crashed then a bunch of other info, then another Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread state and a bunch of other info after that. and that is where it sits right now. I clicked restart and it came up with 8 apples across the top of the screen. and i could hear the DVD running and stopping. I did a restart and reset the pram and ejected the dvd and it looked like it was going to restart, but then the normal apple that was there was gone and now there is a circle with a line thru it on the screen and it woun't boot back to the original version.
  • by jpl,

    jpl jpl Mar 6, 2007 8:30 AM in response to Michael Posz
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    Mar 6, 2007 8:30 AM in response to Michael Posz
    Michael,

    It is unknown at this point how much damage has occurred to your original 10.2.8. Take a look at this document for some suggestions:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464

    XPostFacto has installed and/or modified a few files so you can boot/install 10.4, and obviously something has gone wrong. If you can get back to 10.2.x and save whatever documents you need, you may wish to then boot to your 10.2 CD, erase your HD and install just 10.2...no updates or anything. Now install XPostFacto (either 9.x or 10.x is required to run XPostFacto), then try the Tiger DVD again.
  • by Cameron McEwen,

    Cameron McEwen Cameron McEwen May 27, 2007 1:14 PM in response to jpl
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    May 27, 2007 1:14 PM in response to jpl
    You might want to try this method on the Lombard instead of xpostfacto

    http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:2IX9zsdxiSQJ:jonsharp.net/archives/2005/05/0 6/installing-tiger-on-lombard/hack+tiger+installer+%22badmachines%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

    It worked like a charm on my Lombard, but does require some work.


    Pismo/Beige G3 Mac OS X (10.4.9) G3 400 MHZ, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB HD/G4 500 MHZ , 640 MB RAM, 40GB+50GB HDs
  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder May 27, 2007 8:00 PM in response to jpl
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    May 27, 2007 8:00 PM in response to jpl
    I am not sure it is worth trying to upgrade 10.2.8, bypassing 10.3, and going directly to 10.4 all while using a third-party hack that modifies extensions all over the place. Don't get me wrong -- I use and love XPostFacto -- I just think you are making this too complicated for a process that is a bit fragile to begin with.

    I recommend that if you want to do this, you consider installing and starting from OS 9 and install 10.4 as a brand new install, not upgrading any older version of Mac OS X.