Last July I bought both a Western Digital 30 gig ATA/100 drive and an
ACARD Ahard ATA/66 IDE PCI card for the express purpose of using one
partition to boot from OS X on my J700 . And up to now I've been
happily able to do so with OS X 10.1.5 .
Now that Jaguar 10.2.1 has come out, I decided it was time to upgrade.
But guess what? Jaguar will NOT boot from the WD. No matter what I
have tried. In fact, it won't even install on the drive from the
install CDs - XPostFacto will try to boot from the CD, but it will then
just give up and boot into OS 9 .
Ironically, I discovered that I CAN install Jaguar and boot from one
of my internal SCSI drives - in fact, I'm currently writing this from
the current version of Mail. Jaguar does work nicely otherwise, I
especially am pleased with the speed boost and the added stability of
the system, no more crashing at shutdown
I've tried everything to get this to work off the WD drive - I've
re-partitioned the drive both from OS X and OS 9. I've tried using
Carbon Copy Cloner. I've tried every version of XPostFacto from 2.2 on.
Not a sausage, the disk still refuses to boot. It will mount in Jaguar.
I've tested the drive thoroughly with Techtool Pro 3.08, and there are
no faults reported.
Short of a faulty drive or a faulty card, any other possibilities? The
ACARD currently sits in slot 4 of my J700 .
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