[iBook] Panther Installation

[Paul Bernhardt]

I'll second this.

I bought a stick of ram for a G3 iBook that booted fine in native OS 9 
mode, but kernel panicked when booting into OSX.

Paul

On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Tony Gamble wrote:

> I would look at the RAM as a potential culprit.  In my experience, 
> each iteration of OS X becomes more finicky when it comes to RAM 
> timings and such; it may not even mean that there's a defect in the 
> stick itself, just how it works.  What might have worked perfectly 
> well in OS 9 might not work at all in OS X.
>
>  - Tony Gamble
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Peter Nevett <nevett at tequis.com.mx> 
> wrote:
>>
>>  I have previously looked at the verbose mode screen while this is 
>> happening and the experts on this list suggest that there might be a 
>> problem with the hard drive.
>>  Disc utilities finds no problem, repeatedly.
>>  Is it possible to start up the iBook from the OS9 CD, format the 
>> hard drive and then try to install Panther? I have backed up the 
>> iBook but is there a danger that I will then be unable to re-install 
>> any OS at all?
>>  Any other suggestions?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Pete Nevett
>>
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