10.3 won't install inside MOL

[Tobias McNulty]

Why don't you just boot the 10.3 CD directly and try installing that  
way?  It may be that it is "impossible" to boot from that USB drive,  
I'm not sure what kind of OpenFirmware support there is for USB  
drives.  (Not that that matters if you're booting through MOL, but as  
such I don't think there's much you can do.  I wouldn't expect MOL to  
modify the underlying drive characteristics to fool the OS X  
installer into thinking the drive can be booted!)

If it's the case that OF doesn't support direct booting from your USB  
drive, do you have another drive (firewire or internal) that you  
could install to, and then rsync the files to your USB drive?  I can  
install and boot just fine to/from my external firewire drive.

Good luck,
Toby

On Jul 16, 2005, at 6:55 AM, Llywelyn Fawr wrote:

> Hey!
>
> I recently upgraded my OS X installation on my iBook to Tiger, and
> afterward found out that MOL can't boot Tiger yet.  I didn't want to
> downgrade back to Panther, but I wanted to be able to boot some  
> form of OSX.
>
> I thought I would install Panther, inside MOL, to a partition on an
> external USB drive until Tiger is supported by MOL.
> That way, I would have a working OSX installation, without messing  
> up my
> internal drive.
>
> I set everything up, booted the Panther installation CD inside MOL,  
> ran
> Disk Utility to prepare the external USB partition (which OSX  
> inside MOL
> thought was an IDE drive), and went to actually install the OS when it
> got to the "Select Destination" part.
>
> It lists the "drive" that I want to install to, but it won't let me
> actually install to it for the following reason:
>
> "You cannot install Mac OS X on the volume.  You cannot start up your
> computer using this volume."
>
> Viewing the installation log, it lists the following errors:
>
> root: error: can't obtain properties.
> last message repeated 2 times
> root: bootstrap_look_up(): unknown error code
> root: bootstrap_look_up(): unknown error code
> root: bootstrap_look_up(): unknown error code
>
> The MOL screen shots show an OS9 installation running in MOL, but can
> OSX be installed in MOL?
>
> Is there any way to force OSX to install?
>
> Thanks!  :-)
>
> ~llywelyn
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