Problems with a Bondi Blue iMac (233)

[Seth Dimbert]

Michael,

Thanks for the reply!

You said:

| That is, I have one of the original iMac's. Mine is a 406. I upgraded the
| RAM to 96MB (that was a real pain). I run Mac OS 9.0.4. and YDL 2.3.

You think that's a pain? Try upgrading the hard drive! I replaced my 4GB HDD
with a 40GB - the drive is located under the CD-ROM drive which is under the
Motherboard, which is under the Daughterboard which is under the RAM! While
I was in there I replaced the top 32MB chip with 128MB for a total of 160MB
of RAM.

| Basically I started by backing up my iMac files (burned CD). Used the
Apple
| Drive utilities to split the hard drive into 2 equal 2GB partitions.
| Installed Apple OS onto the first partition.

I've done this too, using OS 9.2. (Except I've got 15GB for the MacOS and 25
for YDL).

| Then I booted the iMac with the YDL disk and ran the install... you may
want
| to just pick one of the complete installations from the selection and
| tune back later rather than using the installer to tune the configuration.

That's exactly what I did; I installed "Everything."

| The first time I did this (with YDL 2.1) I really struggled with Yaboot.
But
| since 2.2 it has done so much of the configuration I have not had any
| problems.

This is where my problem occurs. I'm using YDL 2.2 (Rome) and once the
install is finished, the iMac simply won't startup. I get a solid grey
screen and .... nothing else.  :(

| Also, for what it is worth, I think the performance of my iMac with YDL is
| fast compared to how it crawled with Apple's OS.

That's what I'm counting on. :)

-SD

----- Original Message -----
From: <seth_dimbert@spamcop.net>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 5:58 PM
Subject: Problems with a Bondi Blue iMac (233)


> I'm at my wits' end.
>
> I've got an original iMac and I want to run YDL on it, alongside MacOS. I
> originally wanted to tri-boot 9, X and YDL, but I've given that up since X
was
> too complicated (and didn't run fast enough on the 233 iMac anyway).
>
> Now all I want to do is run both OS9 and YDL. I've followed the install
> instructions carefully.
>
> Twice.
>
> Both times (with a HDD format in between), the machine hung upon trying to
load
> yaboot.
>
> I installed OS9 first, then YDL. I'm currently using the machine in
question,
> in OS9... I get it to boot by zapping the PRAM. It's the only way to get
it to
> startup.
>
> Does there exist a clear set of instructions on how to install YDL and OS9
on
> the orginal iMac? I've been unable to find it (and believe me, I've
looked).
> Might there be, wonder of wonders, a way to run all three OS's on this
machine?
>
> Could someone please help me?
>
> -SD
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