At 8:20 AM -0600 12/27/03, Greenfield Bowie wrote:
>I'm hoping one of you Powerbook gurus might be able to help me get my
>Powerbook to boot up.
>
>I recently purchased a PowerBook G3 on eBay (Lombard/G3/333/OS9.0/192Mb/4Gb/)
>
>It arrived on Christmas eve (perfect!) The 9.0 system installed on
>it booted ok, but was very s - l - o - w ! Years ago I had a Mac
>Powerbook 160, so I used a SCSI cable I still had (with the square
>30-pin connector) and connected the Powerbook in "slave mode" to my
>PowerMac 7300, and installed Mac OS 8.5 from a CD-ROM disc, using the
>7300's CD-ROM drive. Everything seemed to install successfully -- I
>intended to then update the system to 8.6, using the PowerBook itself
>to do the updating. But unfortunately, ever since then, when I try
>to re-boot, I get the blinking question mark; apparently, it cannot
>find the 8.5 installed system.
I'd go looking for a CD-ROM module for the Lombard and do
it that way. You were installing a system for the 7300 in the Lombard,
using SCSI Disk mode.
Paul Nelson
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