> > ------------------------------ > > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 15:56:43 +0800 > From: Charlie Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [PCI] Upgrading woes > >> I have a strange problem. I hope someone out there in Macland can help. >> I have put a 7500 motherboard in a 7200 case, I have installed a >> daughter card( 604e I believe) from a dead 9500. >> The system will not boot from any of the two harddrives that have OS >> 9.2.2 installed. >> I t will however boot from an old Mac OS8 cd and from an older drive >> that has a version of OS 7.something on it. >> I have a Mac OS9 install cd and it will not boot from that either. >> This is not good because all the drives are formatted with HFS+ and OS >> 8 will not see the files on the other HD's. >> How can I get this machine to boot from the other drives ? >> Thank You > > > I would go about this like this: 1st see to it that HDs have no conllicting > SCSI IDs and that each SCSI cable connector is snuggly fit. 2nd if you can > boot from OS 8 CD format/initialize a drive and install the OS at least to > keep your upgrade going. Chances are the drives with 9.2.2 were not > installed on your current hardware so they will need to be reinstalled with > it so the proper extensions will load. Try another Apple ROM'd CD drive > preferrably an 8x since some older 4x drives tend to misread CDs. BTW I > find 9.1 faster to boot than 9.2, > > Charlie > I thought early Pre-G3 macs were limited to 9.1 unless you used the OS-9 Forever hack on the installer for 9.2.
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