Problem installing MorphOS
  • Butterfly
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    Dougal
    Posts: 77 from 2010/10/22
    Hi... I am new here :)

    Ok here is the story. I got a Power Mac G4 with MorphOS installed. It worked perfectly.

    I wanted to have both OS X and MorphOS, so i found a PDF with instructions to make a dual boot system. I followed the instructions.

    I partitioned 3 partitions. One for Boot, 60MB, One for MorphOS, 2GB and the other for OS X. I then installed OS X.

    OS X fine.

    I booted MorphOS cd and went to install.

    I have been following the step by step instructions perfectly so far.

    Anyway once i got to the storage part of the MorphOS installation and i clicked on the 60MB partition (called boot) i got this error:

    "Invalid partition Layout!" and some stuff about the sector range.

    I have no idea what to do.

    As an alternative, i installed another HD, but every time i went to install MorphOS it would freeze just before the part where one would press install.

    So i put in the Morphos HD as the Primary HD (Master) and Morphos installed and ran correctly.

    But then i put it back to SLAVE. Switched on and held ALT for boot menu.

    Selected the MorphOS drive and got stuck on the grey screen. Frozen.

    I really want MorphOS and Mac OS X but its really giving me grieve.

    Any help would be appriated .

    Thanks
    Power Mac G4 1Ghz (Sonnet Encore) 640Mb, ATi Radeon 9000 Pro, USB 2.0
    OS: MorphOS 2.6 (Registered) , Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11
  • »22.10.10 - 16:09
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  • Butterfly
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    Dougal
    Posts: 77 from 2010/10/22
    Help? Anyone?
    Power Mac G4 1Ghz (Sonnet Encore) 640Mb, ATi Radeon 9000 Pro, USB 2.0
    OS: MorphOS 2.6 (Registered) , Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11
  • »23.10.10 - 07:30
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  • Just looking around
    koft
    Posts: 7 from 2010/6/24
    From: USA, NC, Raleigh
    Quote:


    Dougal wrote:
    Help? Anyone?


    I have never tried it but someone will help you, hang on man. (:
  • »23.10.10 - 07:34
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Ruud
    Posts: 335 from 2009/2/2
    From: Hampshire, UK
    Hi Dougal and welcome :)

    Not sure i can be of much help but one thing that might be worth checking is that all your ide cables are 80 line. Morphos doesn't seem to like 40 line cables.
    "We live, we die, we laugh, we cry"
  • »23.10.10 - 08:58
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