Problems upgrading to Panther on imac getting startup disk error -2

Hello all, I recently got a used imac(400Mhz, CD, 10gb hdd, firewire, OS9.1) but unable to install Panther. It keeps giving me an error that Startup could not start from CD(-2). I've searched Apple support and Google but haven't found any good answers. I've made sure that firmware 4.1.9 is installed. Thanks in advance for any help.

Can you boot any other Mac from that CD?

Similar Messages

I get "startup disk" when i start my computer, i enter, then...nothing, the screen is grey. What can I do?

I Turn on my mac air 13" . I get : startup disk is full . I access the device, then the screen turns grey. What happened? what can I do?

Go step by step and test.
1. Start up in Safe Mode.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
2. Empty Trash.
   http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13806
3. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
Local backups
   http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878
4. Delete old iOS Devices Backup.
    iTunes > Preferences > Devices
    Highlight the old Backups , press “Delete Backup” and then “OK”.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
5. Re-index Macintosh HD.
    This will take a while. Wait until it is finished.
    System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
6.Try OmniDiskSweeper. This will give the storage size details of the items.
   https://www.omnigroup.com/more
   Select Macintosh HD and click “Sweep Selected Drive” at the bottom.
   Delete the files you don’t want to keep.
   Be careful. Delete only the files that can be safely deleted.

Startup Disk Error

I'm getting startup disk almost full error and unable to import pics to Iphoto library. What should I do?

For the Mac Pro 65 lb tower (the forum where you originally posted) or for a MacBook pro?

I suddenly started getting hard disk error from a fictitious recovery software how do i get rid

I suddenly started getting hard disk error on my compaq laptop and some software called file recovery start running scans showing all sorts of errors and hiding all my files. I've lost all my icons can't see any files in explorer and upon looking into this found that this may be a fictitious software that has gotten installed on my laptop while browsing through some web sites. all was fine and the problem started while I was in the middle of brwoing some websites.
I am trying to unhidew files but I can't get to my control panel as it does not seem to be there.
Can someone please help. When I looked this i found a website telling descrbing everything that is happeniing on my screen and telling me that this is a fictitious software and gave me various options to resolve but I'm not sure if I should trust this site or not.
Please help. Its my old mum's laptop and she really needs my help on this.
Many thanks
Rekha

Try to download MalwareBytes and do a scan/cleaning with it:
http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?part=dl-10804572&subj=d...
******Clicking the Thumbs-Up button is a way to say -Thanks!.******
**Click Accept as Solution on a Reply that solves your issue to help others**

Problems upgrading from Panther 10.3.9 to Tiger

I am having problems upgrading my Mac 500mhtz which currently runs Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther). It starts the installation process, I choose the language that I want (EnglisH) then the next screebbn says " Alert - Thius software cannot be installed on this computer" . The options I have is Resart or Startup Disk . I don't understand whythis happening becasue I meet the requirements. I have about 6 gigs of space ti stall and from what I read Tiger needs 3 gigs. I have loked through many forums and have not found the answer to my question. Does anybody know the answer to this solution. I have also backed up my User profile and are planning on doing a clean install once when installing Tiger.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
That error frequently appears if you don't use the retail Tiger installer discs. Mac OS X installer discs are system specific or retail versions. You don't want to install another Mac's installer discs, for reasons my FAQ states here:
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html#SYSTEMSPECIFIC
I'd also look that whole FAQ over and see whether or not you really are ready for an upgrade.
In addition, there is no such thing as a "clean install". Here are the various types of installation options available:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607614
Disclaimer: Reference to links I make to my Macmaps.com website are a for your information only type reference. I do not get any profit from this page, and it is open to the public.

Hello, I am trying to upgrade to yosemite, but I get the "disk cannot be used to startup your computer" error. Resizing the partition does not work, I get the error "MediaKit reports no such partition" probably because I installed linux in dual boot

Hello, I am trying to upgrade my macbook pro to yosemite, but I get the "disk cannot be used to startup your computer" error.
Resizing the partition does not work for me and I get the error "MediaKit reports no such partition" probably because I installed linux in dual boot and the disk manager is lost.
Anyway to tell the yosemite installer that it should not pay attention whether the disk is bootable or not ?
If I am doomed, any way to delete the installer and downloaded OS from my hard drive ?
Thanks for your help

As usual, the Linux installer wrecked the partition table. You would have to boot from your OS X installation disc and repartition. Doing so will of course remove all data from the drive, so you must back up first if you haven't already done so.

Having problems upgrading from Panther to Tiger

Hi there!
I'm new to this place, but very desperate to find answers. I have been trying to upgrade from panther to tiger for the past week and have gotten a mess. I have to restore my old panther system after a panic kernal while trying to install tiger. I have tried to upgrade, install and archive and erase and install tiger and the same keeps happening: after 30-30% installation of essentials, I get a "try installing again" message and immediately goes to a blank blue screen. I have to reboot from my eDisk on the external hd and re-install my old system. I've done EVERYTHING I can find on the web and in the install suggestions. Everything has been updated (firmware, sofware, etc.), I tired disconnecting external devices except the keyboard and the external dvd I need to install and still the same thing...over and over and over!
So, now I'm down to the fact that I need to install CDs (internal) instead of DVD off the external drive. However, when I went and downloaded the form for the exchange the Tiger versions listed (MA453Z/A, MA454Z/A) do not coincide with the version I purchased (M96397/A). So I'm trying to figure out what this version is that I purchased and if it has anything to do with my big install mess!
So, any ideas out there? Glad to hear your input!

Call 1-800-MY-APPLE WRT media exchange program and the DVD version you have.

I get a disk error when trying to upgrade to mountain lion on my mac book pro that also runs bootcamp

I recently tried to upgrade my macbook pro OSX to mountain lion via the app store. When it tried to install it gives me a disk error. I have run disk utilities and repaired, verified etc. but it makes no difference. I am running bootcamp as well and have tried to modifiy the partition sizes in disk utilities, but it says for both that they cannot be modified. I can switch my startup disk and reboot in windows, no problem, so getting my files off isnt the issue. I have also tried to recover the hard disk using time machine which i was lucky enough to backup the day before it all went wrong. However, time machine runs fine until it asks me which disk to recover and it gives me an option of the time machine disk or bootcamp, but no option for my mac partition. So, I have tried everything that makes snese, but getting errors with disks lock, cant repartition, disk error needs repair (which i know is not true, its only because of the Mountain Lion OSX that its messed up). Any ideas?

You have some other problem with your boot drive that has corrupted data backed up to the TimeMacine drive.
My advice is to boot into each operating system and manually backup just your Users files each to separate regular external drives (no Timemachine or backup software) and disconnect.
Make a note of any serial numbers, emails, address book contacts, export bookmarks etc. that isn't typically in your users folders data.
You might be able to Winclone 3 the Windows as a whole thing as it's appearing not to have issues but it's your MacintoshHD partition that is so that will have to be rebuilt from scratch.
Most commonly used backup methods
If your OS X parititon doesn't boot, you can use this to recover files.
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
Without any further detail about your machine I can't advise specifically what to do, but it involves using Disk Utility to Zero Erase (move slider one spot to the right or in 10.6 using Security Option) the ENTIRE boot drive and reformatting, then installing OSX fresh and then setting up BootCamp again.
If you wish to switch your boot drive for something better, this is a good time to do this.
Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's
If your machine is capable of Internet Recovery, then use that, then upgrade.
If your machine came with 10.6 or earlier, then use the 10.6 install disks and work up from there.
Erase, formatting, OS X installs on Mac's

I keep getting "startup disk full" message even when I already moved all my files/documents to an external hard disk

Dear all,
What should I do? I keep getting the "startup disk full" message even when I already moved all my files and documents to an external hard disk.
Thanks a heap.

For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article.
Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
If you have more than one user account, make sure you're logged in as an administrator. The administrator account is the one that was created automatically when you first set up the computer.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders, sorted by size with the largest at the top. It may take a few minutes for ODS to finish scanning your files.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

Getting Startup Disk Full message since downloading new Safari update

I downloaded the new Safari update a few days ago… it took ages to do and whenever I now try to use Safari I get the Pinwheel of Death after about two minutes and then a message telling me my startup disk is full. It won't let me acknowledge the message or force-quit from Safari – I have to switch off at the button and restart.
All I have on my MacBook are 15 Word documents and the Applications it shipped with (in fact I’ve actually dumped some in an attempt to clear space, as ell as dumping the cache folders)… I only use it to surf the net in the evenings and have no music or pictures on it.
I'm not having this problem at all when using Firefox. Is it possible the update has a bug?

You really need a bit more space than that, but try a bit of maintanance:
Repairing permissions is important, and should always be carried out both before and after any software installation or update.
Go to Disk Utility (this is in your Utilities Folder in your Application folder) and click on the icon of your hard disk (not the one with all the numbers).
In First Aid, click on Repair Permissions.
This only takes a minute or two in Tiger, but much longer in Leopard.
Background information here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
and here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
An article on troubleshooting Permissions can be found here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963
By the way, you can ignore any messages about SUID or ACL file permissions, as explained here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US
If you were having any serious problems with your Mac you might as well complete the exercise by repairing your hard disk as well. You cannot do this from the same start-up disk. Reboot from your install disk (holding down the C key). Once it opens, select your language, and then go to Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Select your hard disk as before and click Repair.
Once that is complete reboot again from your usual start-up disk.

Keep getting startup disk full messages but I have plenty of HD space

Hi all,
I've been experiencing a odd problem on my 18 month old 13" MacBook Pro. As of last week, I keep getting the dreaded "Your startup disk is almost full" and "Your startup disk is full" messages, yet I have over 7GB of hard drive space available (in addition to 8GB of installed ram) seemingly at random times. I noticed this message come up immediately after a restart this morning, as well as when I woke from display sleep earlier today, but most of the day the messages pop up (sometimes it's "almost full", sometimes it's "full") every 30-60 mins or so. I then immediately check my available space and it reads a solid 7GBs.
Any idea what's going on, or how I can fix this? I'd like to fully understand why this is happening so I can prevent it from coming up in the future.
Thanks!
Addendum: Ok, did a few restarts and it's confirmed: I get the "Your startup disk is full" message when my login screen appers, every time. Help!

Mike Amin wrote:
1. Since when have Mac users needed to adhere to the "10% rule"?
Since hard disk's where built into computers regardless of Mac or others.
10% is just a arbitrary value in a configuration file: Warn at x% - for at least three reasons:
If a disk run full the system is not longer able to extend logfiles, configuration files, the Mac's equivalent for /proc or the swap space.
This will cause the system to freeze and/or prevent the next boot.
On shutdown the system could not write out the data buffered in memory to the disk.
Thereby data may be lost or the filesystem corrupted as a result.
Imagine your 7GB free and the system tríes on shutdown to write back 9GB RAM buffer ...**Do'h**
For user safety. Imagine you have only 5GB free and you load a 7.5GB RAW image file into a application. **Do'h**
Mike Amin wrote:
4. Lupunus, you mention that "available space" is different than "true space". Can you elaborate?
The displayed "Available Space" did not include the cached/buffered files, as to display that value the "sync" command get not invoked.
The kernel keeps data in memory to avoid doing (relatively slow) diskreads and writes.
sync writes any data buffered in memory out to disk.
Lupunus

Running 10.2.8 and Panther as two different startup disks?

I am working on a Gr currently running 10.2.8. I need to keep the option to use 10.2.8 because of the ProTool application I use for now.
I got the upgrade to Panther (got a new iPod that requires 10.3.9). But can I keep 10.2.8 as an option for my startup disk? In other words, can I have both 10.2 and 10.3 on my machine as startup disk options?
If this is possible, how do I install the Panther? I know there is an option to create a Previous System, but the program says I can't use a Previous System as a startup disk.
Please advise.
Thanks.
Amy

Amyt:
You will have to re-format your HDD to be able to re-partition your HDD. That means that your data will be completely destroyed in the process. Although there are utilities that promise to do dynamic partitioning, I have not used them myself, and the reports I have heard from others is not promising. You would be well advised to backup your computer before attempting such a step, anyway.
As Jeff suggested, you will need to back up your entire computer to an external Firewire HDD. SuperDuper makes the job of making a bootable of your entire HDD very easy. You can then clone it back to the designated partition when you are done.
Once you have your HDD cloned to an external Firewire HDD,
boot from the Panther install disk holding down the "C" key.
Go to the installer menu and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left sidebar.
Select the Partition tab in main panel.
Create two partitions, and size them accordingly.
Type the name of the top partition in Name field
Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Check box to install Mac OS 9 drivers.
Select second partion and follow procedure above.
Click partition button at the bottom.
Select First Aid tab.
Run Repair Disk.
Quit Disk Utility,
Open installer and install OS
(You may want to choose to customize and deselect Foreign Language Translations and Additional Printer Drivers. It is also advisable to select to install BSD subsystems).
Then you can clone your Jaguar partition back.
Should you need further assistance, please do not hesitate to post back.
Good luck.
cornelius
Message was edited by: cornelius

Why do I get startup disk full error even though I have 2 gb free?

My startup disk is getting full (I get error message) after 1 day of usage.
In the finder, after a restart, it says I have 2.05 GB available.
Then after working for a while (yes, I keep a few apps open - usually Entourage, Word, Firefox, iTunes -- but c'mon, I have 1 GB of RAM) I get an error that my startup disk is full.
This is my Terminal Log after getting the error:
Processes: 68 total, 2 running, 66 sleeping... 241 threads 16:52:11
Load Avg: 0.92, 0.79, 0.71 CPU usage: 40.4% user, 8.4% sys, 51.1% idle
SharedLibs: num = 204, resident = 38.2M code, 5.36M data, 10.5M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 11633, resident = 436M + 11.8M private, 161M shared
PhysMem: 237M wired, 448M active, 268M inactive, 954M used, 69.9M free
VM: 11.3G + 138M 409448(1) pageins, 267438(0) pageouts
This is my Terminal Log after startup:
Processes: 59 total, 2 running, 57 sleeping... 165 threads 17:00:14
Load Avg: 0.31, 0.11, 0.04 CPU usage: 0.0% user, 2.8% sys, 97.2% idle
SharedLibs: num = 143, resident = 25.7M code, 4.27M data, 7.07M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 4731, resident = 56.3M + 13.4M private, 81.0M shared
PhysMem: 174M wired, 110M active, 139M inactive, 424M used, 599M free
VM: 6.67G + 104M 21081(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts
Any suggestions?

That isn't much hard drive space open. I have heard 10% should be free, so if you have an 80 GB drive you need 8 GB free; if you have 100, 10 free and so on. Even if the figure is 5% you are still too low.
Your error message said you had 267438 pageouts to the disk which seems huge. That means your physical RAM can't keep up and is sending out data to the hard disk which is virtual memory, not real RAM memory. I don't know enough about it to say for sure but that seems like a recipe for this kind of trouble.

I can not get the IOS 5.0.1. upgrade starting, after download I get in itunes error -3259 although firewall is disabled.

I hav tried numurous times to upload the OS to IOS 5.0.1. Even ITUNES is updated. The Ipod is updated, but my Ipds can not.
It is downloading the file and then start to unpack it, ater 2 minutes I am getting aTIME OUT ERROR and
something is wrong with my internet connect, which I can't believe. Internet is working fine.
How to resilve this, I did disable the firewall.

You could try downloading the update via a browser, and then in iTunes press and hold the shift key if on Windows, command key on Mac, when clicking the Check For Updates button which should let you navigate to the downloaded file :
ipad1
iPad 2 wifi-only
iPad 2 GSM/sim
iPad 2 CDMA

Startup disk error message

I keep getting an error msg that my startup disk is full and to close programs. I get the msg even when Safari is the only thing open, and my hard disk is only half full. I show that I have 340gb left available. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Katie,
Before you do anything else, please take your machine to a Apple Store, you have 3 free months of care and they will assist you, perhaps you can take some classes how things work.
Tell them you only had the computer for two weeks and the startup disk says it full, and you've deleted some items, they will know what to do.
Your startup disk shouldn't have gotten so full so fast, something is clearly wrong and you need help in person, we can't assist you here I'm afraid as you don't know very much at this point.
Ask about getting AppleCare and a TimeMachine drive, they will fix your machine right up.
Good Luck Katie.

Problems upgrading to Panther on imac getting startup disk error -2

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for