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- From: johore@teal.csn.org (John Orendt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Sys 7.0 bombs on boot. Why?
- Message-ID: <C18G5u.3Jv@csn.org>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:58:41 GMT
- Sender: news@csn.org (news)
- Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
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- Hi
-
- I'm trying to Upgrade from sys 6.0.7 to Sys 7.0. I don't get
- any errors during the installation of sys 7.0 or when I do
- the sys 7. tuneup. When I boot up I get system error "finder"
- bad f-line instruction or if I hold down the shift key
- (causing extensions not to load) while booting I get system
- error "finder" illegal instruction. Amazingly, the booting
- process completes successfully if I lock the disk before
- booting. I think the error occurs while the system is trying
- to rebuild the desktop for some reason unknown to me.
- Unfortunately, there is not much I can do with a locked disk!
-
- I have a Mac II with no internal hard drive and two 800k
- floppy drives, an 11" apple B/W monitor with 8 Megs ram and
- an AST286 card installed. My hard drive is an almost new
- removable media Bernoulli Dual 90 Pro which I boot from. I
- have no problems with system 6.0.7 except for my FaxSTF
- software bombing randomly when sending faxes (some times it
- works sometimes it don't) which is why I'm trying to upgrade
- to sys 7.0.
-
- I got the sys 7.0 software, disk tools, and tuneup from ftp
- ftp.apple.com in ./mac/sys.soft/7.0... via the Colorado Super
- Net. (Has anyone successfully upgraded from this source?)
- I decoded the binhex files to the image files using Stuffit
- Classic 1.6. I transfered the image files to 800k floppies
- using DiskCopy 4.2.
-
- I did a full backup.
-
- I booted from a sys 6.0.7 floppy with the Iomega driver.
- which lets me see the mounted 90MB cartridge. I threw away
- the old system folder. Then, I put in the sys 7.0 Install 1
- floppy and used the default install. The standard install
- asked for all the floppies except the disk tools and the
- tuneup. This completed successfully.
-
- When I try to boot from this cartridge I get the system bomb.
-
- Then, I tried various permutations like installing only the
- minimum Mac II configuration. Same result. I also tried
- zapping the pram. Same result. I also tried running the
- tuneup. This completed successfully. Same result.
-
- The cartridge passes disk first aid and Norton Utilities Disk
- Doctor.
-
- Thanks in advance for any help.
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- JOHN ORENDT johore@csn.org .-~~~-,
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