Help - Dual Boot Problems

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:58:09 -0800

I have a B&W G3 running Panther on one drive (40GB Western Digital Master) and OS 9 on another (20GB Western Digital Slave). I set the OS 9 drive as the startup drive, was working in OS 9 when it crashed. I had to reset the computer from the front panel button and now it tries to boot into OS 9 but won't get passed the mouse pointer appearing (no Mac OS face). I've tried holding down C to boot from a CD, and I've even tried unplugging the slave (OS 9) drive from the IDE cable, but all I get is a blank screen (I use an LCD which says "Cannot Display This Video Mode").

I need to get it to boot into OS X on my Master drive, but it won't respond.

Help!!!

Andrew



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On Mar 17, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Clyde Kahrl wrote:

Jerry wrote:
I was told to just dump the Beige and get a G4/500 on eBay, for many
reasons, but the biggest being that the Beige has an IDE bus running at
16.5mhz -- not the ATA/66 bus on the G4. Is this true?

A: Get a sawtooth G4 (or a refurbished eMac). Here is why: 1) everything in the sawtooth (not yikes) is better and so everything runs better and faster--including your new drives that you will later put in--and particularly networking and usb driver installation and so forth; 2) OSX software has already moved beyond the G3s in general and so if you are intending to use OSX in the future--get a sawtooth or later (for example, iSight only runs on 600mhzG3s or any G4--but not necessarily an upgrade; your 533mhz upgrade may not work with 10.3 because beige G3s are officially not supported by Panther); 3) the cost of upgrading everything in your G3 to bring it up to speed with a sawtooth is prohibitive and includes: firewire, usb, video card, ethernet,ultra ATA--and this constitutes 5 cards and you only have 3 slots (of which maybe only 2 are reliable); 4) in my experience, newer and faster drives seem to run slower on my 2 beige G3s than on other machines, and so does the network--and running the network hard (through the 100mhz card) and the drive hard, simultaneously, will cause the machine to intermittently hang and let go until it drops the network or freezes altogether; my superstition is that this is because the faster drive and the faster network card (not to mention the other cards) are just too much for the circuitry.

In other words, I have no intention of getting rid of my Beige G3s, but I don't think you should beat yourself up trying to get this thing going up to speed as your only computer.
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