Leopard starts with circle with a slash Options

[trav1085]

I have Leopard 9A321, and when I start it on my G3/433Mhz iMac, after editing OSINstall.mpkg, I get to the gray screen with the Apple Logo and then it gives me a circle with a slash through it.

I also have Mac OS 9.2.2 on it but I don't think that is a problem. I burnt it to a 4.7GB DVD by removing Xcode.

[Soündless]

i saw a guide on putting leo on an imac g3 somewhere, he did it in target disk mode, try to reinstall it in target diskmode.

[trav1085]

Target disk mode? Don't you need another mac, as it uses firewire.

[alloutmacstoday]

yeah, you do. can you go into leo. actually, your problem is that 433mhz isn't enough for leo.

[trav1085]

I'm sure it can work with 433mhz, is that the actual problem why it has the circle and slash? I thought it would run on that.

[alloutmacstoday]

i dunno about the circle with a slash. my friend ran it on a 900 mhz ibook g3, and it had 9.2.2, and no cirle with slash.

[Soündless]

the circle with slash occured on my hackintosh, it was because my hd was configured wrong

[trav1085]

I formatted my Mac's 10GB HD, created two HFS+ Journalling partitions. Used CCC to copy my leopard DVD to the partition Install, and then installed OS X 10.3.0. I booted in that, went to the Installer partition, opened OSInstall.mpkg and I get an error at the beginning saying:

"The Bill of Materials for this package was not found"

What does this mean? I will do almost anything to get leopard working, unless there is no way at all, even with hacks, to get it installing on a 400MHz g3

This post has been edited by trav1085: Jan 1 2007, 02:56 AM

[Fizzeh]

This happened to me...then I gave up on leopard for like a month.

What you need to do is use Disk Utility. Open Disk Utility and drag your .dmg of leopard below the other devices. Click the .dmg on that list. Then click the restore tab. Drag leopard (from the list on the left side) to the source area...and by that I mean the little text entry area...drop it over that. Drag your useless partition to the destination area. Select to delete destination (checkbox). Click restore. Boot up your computer while pressing option. Wait a bit, and then select the partition with the install DMG. This should work.

[alloutmacstoday]

isn't that what we told him to do?

[adriandkicks]

what you need is a copy of os x install on a second partition on the hdd and a copy of pacifist.

What you do then is you insert the DVD or Disk image and load pacifist then select "OPen apple install packages" then select the essentials and click File "Install files to other disk" then click OK and it will install. Permission repair from the OS X system yur currently running and boot the leo partition.

[alloutmacstoday]

oh, that sounds like it would work. i want to try it

[Soündless]

433 is enough, but it is the lack of altivec that made me get rid of it on my ibook. it will run very glitchilly

[Numberzz]

OK, stop arguing. Try resetting your PR RAM. When turing your comp on, hold APPLE_OPTION_P_R. Wait till it plays the startup sound twice. 433 is enough.