The 20 gb was empty and I was going to install 10.2 on it. I loaded the 1st install disk for 10.2 into the cdrw (which is normally bootable), clicked restart, held down C key...
Got this ugly firmwarish screen stating: "no bootable hdpartitiono" like some 100 times, then 3 rows of "can't "open_
Then the disk with the blinking ?
Huh?
Oh well, out with the cd - nothing happened. Okay, shut the thing down and tried again - same procedure no bootable, can't open_ ...
Dragged out a dusty old Apple 300e, attached it and loaded a 9.x cd, got the 3 lines of can't open_, but then it booted. So far so good except there was only one hd on the desktop.
Tried various disk utils with no luck. Checked ASP and found that I had only one ata - the one with the empty 20 gb hd.
As of now I've disconnected everything from ata 1 and connected my original 9.2.1 boot disk to ata 0, so I'm up running.
How do I get my ata 1 back (assuming getting it back will also kill the "can't open_")?
And what went wrong here?
I knew about the 8 gb limit for beige Gs, but thought I could partition the disk when I had booted from the 10.2 cd - should I have made the partition before trying to boot from the cd?
What I didn't know (read it @ lowend.mac afterwards) was the master/slave issue - very likely both the cdrw, and the hd I was going to install to, was set to slave...
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