Hi, compacters! I'm still toying with the new drive and the Classic II board for my little Classic. I have been able to boot into System 7.6.1 and set the startup drive so the Classic II board allways boots from the external drive. Until yesterday all worked just fine: I could allways see both drives and boot from both of them without problem. But today, when I booted from the external drive, the Mac got frozen *after* loading the first extension (or *before* loading the second). When I disconnected the internal drive, it booted without problem. When I swapped the board and booted from the internal drive with the external connected and powered on, it also booted without problem and I could open the external drive and use its files.
The internal drive has a bare System 6.0.7 inside it (it only has the "Window Shade" and "Desktop Manager" extensions installed). The external drive has an experimental version of System 7.6.1 compiled by Bill Brown that has a lot of stuff to make it look and act in a way very simmilar to System 8.x. The first two extensions loaded by System 7.6.1 are "CFM-68k Runtime Enabler" and "Apple guide". As far as I know, it isn't a SCSI/IDs/terminators problem, because with System 6.0.7 both disks work without problem, and with System 7.6.1, it starts to boot and get hanged allways in the same exact point. I have tried to disable the "CFM-68k Runtime Enabler" extension, and when I disable it, System 7.6.1 boots just fine. But when I re-enable it, it stops booting. And I have read that this extension is needed by some programs that use shared libraries. Is it really as important as it states? What are the more common apps that need this extension? Perhaps, after all, I can live without it... And, can anybody tell me why is this happening? At first all was working just fine, and I don't remember to have done anything to the internal drive, except for a couple desktop rebuilds (prior to installing Desktop Manager). Is there something I can do to the internal drive to let the Classic II to boot from the external drive with the internal connected and the CFM-68 extension active? Greetings, Antonio Rodr�guez (Grijan) <ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/> -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
