>I've been attempting to configure a compact flash card as an emergency >boot and repair disk for my 5300cs. > >I can successfully install the OS (8.1 in this case) and various utilities >(incl. Norton, Disk Warrior). > >When I try to boot from the card, I first get the start of the boot >sequence and the smiling MacOS screen and progress bar. I then get a bomb >with a "bus error" and am told to boot with extensions off. Doing so >results with another "bus error." >FWIW, ejecting the CF card during the restart allows successfull booting >from the main HD. >What am I missing? Or is this something that just cannot be done?
I'm booting a 1400 from CF with 8.1 just fine; Sandisk 64 meg w/ Sandisk PC Card adapter. The goal was same as yours- get a Speed disk boot disk made so I could defragment files. I had to format it as a mac volume is all, then just drug the system folder from the hard drive over (actually I only drug over the extensions and cdevs actually needed, since 64 megs would not be enough for entire system folder plus Norton Utils, I had to trim stuff that wasn't needed for Norton, plus make sure I had "startup disk" and similar stuff that I would need). If you installed from a CD, try just dragging a copy of your current system folder over, then choosing the PC Card with the "startup disk" control panel. and of course after I did all this, I got one of the IBM 20gig fluid spindle drives on clearance from OWC and thus made the defrag I did on the old drive moot :) but I will say- the fluid spindle HD's are just about as quiet as booting from a PC Card! Brian -- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
