B&W G3 can't boot YDL2.2

Timothy A. Seufert yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri May 10 03:41:01 2002


At 6:57 PM -0500 5/9/02, Al Arzaga wrote:
>That's interesting.  My cd drive was set to hdi, btw...
>which makes sense considering the IDE card contains two connections
>to hook up four hard drives (hde, hdf, hdg, and hdh).
>
>But back to the issue at hand, do you think my having this IDE
>controller and not utilizing the motherboard's built-in busses
>have any bearing on the problem of it not booting?

I do know that you *can* boot without using the motherboard IDE 
busses.  I've done it before with SCSI cards.

What kind of IDE card is it again?  It needs to have an Open Firmware 
driver in its ROM to be bootable on New World PowerMacs like the B&W.

-- 
Tim Seufert