Must be something about this particular PCI card that doesn't allow OS-9 booting. Or. . . . something. Ah, the mysteries of computerdom! I thought a lot of this hair-pulling behavior was over with when we did away with SCSI voodoo, but it was only replaced with different kinds of vexations.
Really, when you think about it, we're still in the Model T era of computers. Future generations driving the absolutely trouble-free descendants of our primitive computers will laugh when we old-timers describe the kinds of hassles we went through "way back at the turn of the century."
Thanks for the help!
Tom
On Sep 15, 2004, at 6:16 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
Could it be that Drive C is not formatted to accept OS 9 drivers?
OR,
Taking a clue from a similar problem on another list, could it be that Drive
C is over 128 GB and larger than the limit set in the G4's ROM? I'm just
guessing, but a detailed description of Drive C, make, model, size, etc.,
may get the experts here to chime in.
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Tom Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Subject: Can't boot from cloned drive Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:02:44 -0600
I've got two internal hard drives in my G4: Disk A has OS 9.2.2 on it,
and Disk B has 10.3.5. I have no trouble booting back and forth between
9 and 10.
Today I added a third internal hard drive, Disk C, a serial ATA drive running off a PCI controller card. I want this new one to replace Disk A, which is a small drive that I want to get rid of and replace with a bigger one. My plan was to move everything from Disk A over to Disc C, so that C would then contain everything that A did, and assume all its functions (and in effect become A), and then I would remove the original A drive from the Mac.
So, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy everything from Disk A over to
Disk C. And sure enough, Disk C now shows up on the Startup Disk panel
as a disk with a bootable 9.2.2, just like A, and it has everything on
it that A does. However, unlike A, C won't boot. If I choose it as the
startup disk and restart, Disk A always appears as the one in control.
This happens even if I drag Disk A to the trash to dismount it, leaving
Disk C as the only OS 9 choice on the Startup Disk panel. On restart,
Disk A always reappears as the boot disk in charge.
So, is there any way that I can make Disk C take over all the data and functions of A, so that I can remove A and replace it with a bigger drive?
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