Hi,
Does anyone out there know under what circumstances the Mac will
choose to boot off a disk other than the one that has been designated
as the startup disk?
I've recently added a SCSI external disk to my 9600 PPC. This disk
has a bootable partition [OS8.6] that has worked just fine with my
Mac5500, but when I designate it as the startup disk on the 9600 it
doesn't work at all - the machine simply boots from one of the
internal disks (the one it previously booted from [OS8.1]).
Apple System Profiler reports that the external disk is the startup
device, but that the internal drive is the active system disk. I can
see the external drive with no problem, it doesn't have a SCSI id
conflict, and both partitions are mounted and accessible. I get no
error message, but there is no indication that the machine even
attempts to boot off the drive (no lights flicker) - it just seems to
ignore the startup instructions.
The Startup Disk control panel does appear to work - I can reset the
startup device to another bootable internal drive [also OS8.1] and
have that work.
This isn't my machine - it is on loan, and not to be played around
with. So....I want to be able to set up everything I need to use it,
including the system, on the external drive, and keep off the owners
internal drives.
Any ideas?
Cheers, Kaye
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Kaye Stott & Geoff Prince
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Web: http://www.omninet.net.au/~kg/
