Here's part 2: -------------------------------------- From: Paul F. Henegan:
"To boot from the hard drive, the system software needs to be installed and the System Folder _blessed_, that is to say, the file system on the disk needs to know about the fact that a viable operating system has been installed. The flashing question mark indicates that one or both of the seconditions is not true. The gray screen and frozen mouse indicate a SCSI problem. Verify that the hard drive and the CD-ROM drive have been jumpered to present unique IDs to the SCIS chain, and that only the last device physically at the end of the SCSI cable is terminated. If you have a bootable SCSI device in an external case, that could be worth a try. There exist bootable floppy images up to OS 8.5 as a last resort to see what is going on." I have not changed the jumper setting on the hard drive, as I assumed that it was set for the J-700. Maybe this is not a good assumption. The drive is terminated (I think. . .) with a jumper and there is a second jumper on the "term power" on there, too, however, there is no ID jumper. See elow. - Scott ------------------------------ From: "Richard Tarbell: "Another idea: Your CD-ROM drive is NOT Apple OEM and perhaps cannot booth the CD unless the driver for the drive is on the CD itself. You might need an original SuperMac/UMAX OS CD. If nothing else works, you might just have to remove the hard disk and put into another Power Mac (if you have one), and install the software on that computer, then put the hard disk back into the J700." Yeah, I've been trying to run down an external scsi device to the OS (either an external scsi hard enclosure or CD-RW). I'm bidding on eBay for an external CD-RW, which would be good to have even after I get this up and going.- Scott ------------------------ From: John "You won't be able to boot through the j700's CD-ROM with anything other than a_SuperMac_ boot disk. That is, a boot CD issued by UMAX. A standard "Apple-labeled" Mac OS CD won't work, because of the fact that the j700 has a CD-ROM that doesn't have the necessary Apple ROM chip in it that will permit it to boot from an _Apple_ System software CD. Chances are you already know this." I know there are issues here. I've had some success loading my C-500 from the OS CD, but then I had to immediately install the FWB CD-ROM Toolkit for the CD-ROM after that. Apparently this varies from machine to machine.- Scott "So what to do next to get going with the wiped hard drive? If the floppy drive is functional, you can boot from a floppy disk. . ." I've tried several of the above sites and burned floppies. When I plugged them in, they were all rejected by my impestuous J-700. Maybe I'm holding my head wrong. . . - Scott (Thanks, part 2) ------------------------------ -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
