Mac os 8.5 question

 > Hello,
 >
 > When I boot my Power Macintosh 8100/100 from a Mac OS 8.5
 > CD, I get a system bomb dialog box that tells me there was
 > an address error and to restart while holding the shift
 > key to disable extensions.
Wow - I assume the CD is the Apple full install version and
not one for a Performa, etc?

 > When I do this, the computer
 > boots just fine from the CD. Is this normal? Right now,
 > the computer does not have a hard drive. I'm not sure if
 > this would affect it or not.
That should not affect what you are seeing - the Mac does
not like the extensions (or one of the other things that is
disabled by the shift key on startup) on the CD.

 > Thanks

It does prove that the hardware works. You have a CD with at
least one extension, etc that the Mac does not like.

You should be confident (if that is what you want to do) in
getting a hard drive and spending some time getting the Mac
set up to use. I would advise going to 8.6 and using a full
installation CD designed for any Mac. Often, the CDs that
come with various computers has the right software for that
computer (only!).


Charles Phillips
"Drink Upstream Of The Herd, Get A Macintosh"
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Problem solved. I thought that there may be a battery problem, so I opened
up the case to look for it. I saw a card that I had completely forgotten
about, a Digidesign Expansion Chassis Interface card. For pictures of
the card go to this URL:

http://www.digidesign.com/support/propix/ECIClassic.html

As you can see from the disclaimer at the bottom of the page, this model
of the card is not compatible with PowerPC systems. I pulled out the card,
booted from my Mac OS 8.5 CD (universal full install by the way) and
presto, the problem was gone. Thanks for the responses.

Jonathan Adams (az268nospam@chebucto.ns.ca) wrote:
: Hello,

: When I boot my Power Macintosh 8100/100 from a Mac OS 8.5 CD, I get a
: system bomb dialog box that tells me there was an address error and to
: restart while holding the shift key to disable extensions. When I do this,
: the computer boots just fine from the CD. Is this normal? Right now, the
: computer does not have a hard drive. I'm not sure if this would affect it
: or not. The computer has 144 megs of RAM.

: Thanks
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in article 40c882d2.610.41@news2, triples at triples.RemoveThis@mail.ev1.net.invalid
wrote on 6/10/04 8:50 AM:

 > Wow - I assume the CD is the Apple full install version and
 > not one for a Performa, etc?
 >

 >
 > Charles Phillips
 > "Drink Upstream Of The Herd, Get A Macintosh"
 > note feeble anti-spam attempt on Reply-To address


I was not aware of any Performa only o/s since 7.1P2 (the various faces of
7.5.3 had little to do with Performa but more on whether the o/s was
preinstalled or shipped separately- except 7.5.3L which was PowerMac Clone
o/s)<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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I had a Performa 6400 disc with 7.5.3 on it. It refused to boot an LC 575.

: I was not aware of any Performa only o/s since 7.1P2 (the various faces of
: 7.5.3 had little to do with Performa but more on whether the o/s was
: preinstalled or shipped separately- except 7.5.3L which was PowerMac Clone
: o/s)
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in article caiknt$s1v$1@News.Dal.Ca, Jonathan Adams at
az268nospam.RemoveThis@chebucto.ns.ca wrote on 6/13/04 3:33 PM:

 > I had a Performa 6400 disc with 7.5.3 on it. It refused to boot an LC 575.
 >
 > : I was not aware of any Performa only o/s since 7.1P2 (the various faces of
 > : 7.5.3 had little to do with Performa but more on whether the o/s was
 > : preinstalled or shipped separately- except 7.5.3L which was PowerMac Clone
 > : o/s)
 >

Good news: your mac can run o/s 8.0

But, WHICH 7.5.3 did you try?

System 7.5.3 (aka 7.5 Update 2); fixes s.a. 040 VM Update, 630 SCSI Update
etc.
7.5.3L (PPC Clone)
7.5.3Revision2 patches to PCI-PPC and PB's.
7.5.3Revision2.1 (Performa 6400 only)<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Revision 2.1 I believe. The CD was labelled "Performa 6400 series". BTW,
My Mac is running 8.6 (8.5 with update).

catchmerevisited (catchmerevisited2004@yahoo.ca) wrote:
: in article caiknt$s1v$1@News.Dal.Ca, Jonathan Adams at
: az268nospam.DeleteThis@chebucto.ns.ca wrote on 6/13/04 3:33 PM:

: > I had a Performa 6400 disc with 7.5.3 on it. It refused to boot an LC 575.

: Good news: your mac can run o/s 8.0

: But, WHICH 7.5.3 did you try?

: System 7.5.3 (aka 7.5 Update 2); fixes s.a. 040 VM Update, 630 SCSI Update
: etc.
: 7.5.3L (PPC Clone)
: 7.5.3Revision2 patches to PCI-PPC and PB's.
: 7.5.3Revision2.1 (Performa 6400 only)
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in article casop8$rh2$1@News.Dal.Ca, Jonathan Adams at
az268nospam DeleteThis @chebucto.ns.ca wrote on 6/17/04 11:43 AM:

 > Revision 2.1 I believe. The CD was labelled "Performa 6400 series". BTW,
 > My Mac is running 8.6 (8.5 with update).

Yep; that would be it. I should have read your post better, or I would have
seen it myself. :D
 >
 > catchmerevisited (catchmerevisited2004@yahoo.ca) wrote:
 > : in article caiknt$s1v$1@News.Dal.Ca, Jonathan Adams at
 > : az268nospam DeleteThis @chebucto.ns.ca wrote on 6/13/04 3:33 PM:
 >
 > : > I had a Performa 6400 disc with 7.5.3 on it. It refused to boot an LC 575.
 >
 > : Good news: your mac can run o/s 8.0 (the LC)
 >
 > : But, WHICH 7.5.3 did you try?
 >
 > : System 7.5.3 (aka 7.5 Update 2); fixes s.a. 040 VM Update, 630 SCSI Update
 > : etc.
 > : 7.5.3L (PPC Clone)
 > : 7.5.3Revision2 patches to PCI-PPC and PB's.
 > : 7.5.3Revision2.1 (Performa 6400 only)
 >

Correction to a previous statement: technically the iMac appears to be
similiar to Performa under Jobs' leadership, in that 7.5.1 and 7.5.3 had o/s
versions specifically for Performas and now they are doing same for iMac an
apple reseller sold me "o/s 9" only to find that the install disk was set up
specifically for iMac firmware [thus explaining the iMac lettering on the
disk]; he knew what model I wanted the o/s for (6500) yet he still sold me
an essentially useless disk.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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