help for failed boot from all firewire volumes; repeating getty and signal 5

[John Baltutis]

On 07/09/04, Wayne Clodfelter <wayne at troutnc.com> wrote:
>
> Stranger than friction.
> I recently moved--hopefully up--to an AGP Graphics G4/500 from my beige
> G3 (G4/467 ZIF) because I grew weary of massaging the system to jump
> through increasingly more sophisticated OS X hoops. My attempt to
> install Panther via XPostFacto 3 failed, and left me unable to boot
> back into my trusty and well working 10.2.8 firewire volume. Or any
> firewire volume, for that matter.

Why would you use XPostFacto to install Panther on a G4/500. It doesn't
need it. Also, see <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25784>,
which might explain why a 10.2.8 installlation keyed to a G3 might not be
able to boot a G4.