On Feb 10, 2013, at 4:05 PM, Bill Connelly wrote:
Since the beige G3 won't boot from FW, then I need to reconsider.
You can boot OS X from the FW drive using xPostFacto.
I'd install 10.4.11 onto the 73GB partition, and then use XPF 4 (it's
carbon and runs in both OS 9 & OS X) from your OS 9 internal HD.
Alternately, remove the 80GB HD from the FW enclosure and install it
into the Beige G3.
TMI-Sometimes booting 2nd HDs can be problematic on Beige, there is
one ROM version (A) that doesn't support any slave drive booting,
although XPF can boot slave drives on normally early Beige with ROM A
by using a bootable master HD as an XPF Helper Drive. Later ROM B & C
can boot both master & slave. You can place newer B & C ROMs into
older Beige. It's a little complicated because there were three ROMs
(A, B, & C) and three hardware revisions of Beige (1, 2, & 3) and the
ROMs mostly matched up with the models revisions, but if you really
wanted the fastest possible Beige you probably wanted an early Rev.1
model that had an overclockable System bus which was determined by the
"Grackle" chip (blue colored chip on motherboard). Most Rev.1's had
Grackle chips capable of overclocking from 66MHz System Bus to 83MHz,
but the Rev.2&3 had slower Grackle chips that were not capable of
overclocking. The fastest possible Beige would be a Rev.1 Beige w/fast
Grackle with a version B or C ROM chip so you could boot all internal
devices and overclock the System bus to 83MHz.
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