On 15 May 2009, at 09:21:05 PDT, Al Poulin wrote:
> On May 12, 7:33 pm, PAR <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a gigabit 450 dual, I installed a second hard drive on. The >> original drive, a 20 gig, has OSX 10.4 installed, while the second >> drive, a 60 gig, has OSX10.2, OS10.3, and OS9.2 installed on three >> partitions. The OSes were installed while the drive was in a B & W. I >> can boot into the 10.2 and 10.3 partitions fine from OS 10.4, but 9.2 >> will not start. I attempted to reinstall OS 9 by booting from its >> install cd, but the computer can only see the 20 gig drive booting >> from cd -- the 60 gig drive is invisible. I have the second drive >> jumpered as a slave in the system. Any ideas how I can make the 60 >> gig >> visible from a cd boot so I can reinstall OS9? > > Maybe need to make a jumper change on the drives? Need help from the > experts on this list. -------------- If the drives are both "seen" by the machine when booted into 10.4, then the drive must be properly jumpered. At first guess, I suspect that the 60 gig drive didn't have the "OS9 Drivers" written when first formatted. Thus, it can't bee seen when OS 9 is the "booted" OS. I suspect that you may have to reformat the drive in order to install the OS 9 drivers. Ken http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gt1w/stackomacs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
