With the Rev1 board, the CD and Nucleolus need to be seperated. I.E one on each of the two available IDE buss connectors. (set them both as 'master')
Chuck On Friday, March 25, 2005, at 02:29 PM, Admin wrote:
Hi Yersinia;
Just for something to give a quick try to. (fractured English construction)
Try 'unplugging' the SCSI cable from 'Nucleolus' , hit CUDA, and let it take a while-- It SHOULD find 'XXX' and 9.1 and boot from there.
Chuck
On Friday, March 25, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Yersinia wrote:
Hello, G-listers.
I'm hoping someone among you can help me solve this problem before I lose
my mind. ;-)
Technical Refresher:
G3/233 Beige, Rev 1 96 Mb RAM Currently running OS 8.1 on an old 2 gig SCSI HD, but trying to change this before it dies (see below).
I've just had a 20-gig Western Digital IDE HD installed in my G3 which I
ultimately want to run on OS 9.2.2 (I've got the free updates to install
once I get the new HD up and running). I know the drive is good (I'll
tell you why momentarily).
Using Drive Setup from an OS 9.1 full install CD, I was able to both
format it as an HFS+ drive, and, as this CD also told me to do, Update
Driver. Next, I was able to install OS 9.1 -- once I got past a very
peculiar error message. Namely, I deliberately selected "XXX" (new HD's
temporary name) as the HD to install the OS 9.1 on, but after "Checking
XXX" I got the following bizarre response, which I wrote down verbatim:
"The hard disk driver in Nucleolus cannot be updated with this program
because the disk is not an Apple hard disk. Contact the manufacturer of
your computer or hard disk tro see if you need to update the driver."
Now, the reason I think this is bizarre is because Nucleolus (though true
enough, it isn't an Apple disk) is NOT the hard disk I was trying to
install the OS 9.1 on! However, clicking "continue" rather than "cancel"
got the 9.1 installed on XXX, the desired hard disk. Or so it appeared
when I double clicked on its HD icon: it looked like everything was in
place after the installation finished.
The problem is this -- even though I (a) installed 9.1 on XXX, and then
proceeded to (b) select it as my startup disk, it won't start up no
matter if I hit "restart" from the Apple menu or shut it down and use the
power button on the keyboard to boot. What DOES it start up with?
Nucleolus, the old SCSI drive!!!
Also, if I have a bootable CD in my G3 and use that as my startup, it
boots just fine and everything that's supposed to show up on the desktop
does. But when Nucleolus is the boot drive, XXX--the new HD--does not so
much as even appear on the desktop! (anyone know why this might be?)
I know this new HD works, even though I got it used. My boyfriend had put
Linux on it and booted a Linux machine with it, no problems. So now that
I've got it Mac formatted and a Mac OS on it, why won't it boot my G3
when I make it the startup disk? Is there something about Mac in general
or the G3 in particular which makes it prefer booting from SCSI drives
rather than IDE?
Desperately thanking any and all knowledgeable persons in advance,
~Yersinia.
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