At 5:23 PM -0500 12/5/04, Bill Buckhaults wrote:
Hi;
I have a 233mhz Wallstreet running OS 9.1 connected via a PCMCIA firewire to an external hard drive containing OS 10.
How do I boot into OS 10??
When I change the start up disk and restart I get the following message a the first start up screen.
1,unknown word open firmware,2.0.1 to continue booting the Mac os type: BYE (return) to continuebooting from the default boot device type: BOOT (return) for open firmware serial i/o type TTYA io (return) ok o > 3## 3_
Can someone explain to me what all this means and what I must do? Thanks for any help. Bil
Clark Martin replied:
You can't boot from FireWire. AFAIK there are no bootable FireWire PCI or CardBus cards.
You can boot OS X from any Firewire PCI or PCMCIA cards in all "old world" Macs by using XPostFacto's "helper disk" boot process (7200-9600, BeigeG3, PowerBookG3-Kanga, MainSteet, Wallstreet, 2400-3400, TAM, plus clones of these).
This process starts the boot on a "helper disk" attached to any bootable internal bus, and then transfers the boot to any mountable drive attached to devices that can be initialized early in the OS X boot process. This includes Firewire cards; some SCSI & ATA/IDE "PC" cards that normally won't boot in Mac but will mount; and perhaps even USB 2 devices (not known, but they do initialize early, USB 1 do not).
To boot the FW drive simply download the most recent XPostFacto 3 from versiontracker.com if your OS X volume is Jaguar, Panther or Tiger (10.2-10.4). If your OS X volume is Cheetah or Puma (10.0 or 10.1) you can't use XPF 3 and instead must use XPF 2. The last version of XPF 2 was 2.2.5 and is available on the 'real' XPostFacto page: http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/XPostFacto3.html
I strongly advise for as much memory as possible and using at least Jaguar 10.2 since early OS X is very unstable. 10.1.5 is absolutely necessary for any hope of a useable System.
You need to remember to think of XPF as a replacement Startup Disk Control panel and always use XPF once you begin using it. You should NOT use regular Apple Startup Disk in either OS 9.x or OS X in conjunction with XPF. You'll get the PRAM & NVRAM all confused and need to reset everything which is a major hassle. XPF runs in both OS 9.x and OS X, so you need the one download, but place copies on both drives just in case.
To actually boot the FW drive, just attach it while booted in OS 9.1. Double-click the XPF icon and select the OS X volume as the boot device and the OS 9.1 volume as the "helper" and then hit the Restart button. You might want or need some Options in the Options menu. I always use the verbose startup so that if there are problems during the OS X boot process I can "see" where the system is hanging and know something of what the issue might be. It's probably best to read about WallStreet specific issues on the XPF Forums page or Unsupported OS X mailing list archives:
http://forum.macsales.com/
http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/
XPF is shareware, but there are not serial #'s or anything yet. For your fee you get the ability to post questions to the XPF forums which is usually worth the money because these people are very smart. You can always get free help on the UnsupportedOSX mailing list, which is probably where this question belongs.
Good luck! Kris
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