B&W G3 drive problems

[Jann Röder]

You might have some broken Openfirmware settings. You can try the following:

Boot up your computer and hold down apple-alt-o-f .
The open firware prompt will appear. Now enter:
reset-nvram <enter>
set-defaults <enter>
reset-all <enter>

Jann

Michael George wrote:

> I'm having one heck of a time with YDL 3.0 and this B&W G3 300MHz 
> system.   A friend got it used from a school and it has a 6GB drive w/ 
> 9.2.2.  I want to make it dual-boot with 9.2.2, so I got a MDT 20GB 
> drive (made by Western Digital) and hooked it up.  Right now only the 
> 20Gb drive is on it, as I'm waiting for an ATA100 cable to connect them 
> both.
> 
> I had trouble with the GUI install failing, so I did the safe mode 
> install and it seemed to work okay the 3 or 4 times I've done it.
> 
> After installing, though, the system won't boot.  The first try, it got 
> through the state1 bootloader and then croaked on the 2nd stage.  I 
> reinstalled, thinking I'd done something wrong.  Since that time, it 
> won't even recognize the disk on boot, but it will when installing.
> 
> I read something about a possible 8GB limit on the / partition, so I 
> reinstalled with /dev/hda3 being 8190MB rather than the rest of the 
> disk, as autopartition wanted to do.
> 
> Same thing happened, at boot I get the flashing folder with the "?" on it.
> 
> So, I thought I'd test the setup with an OSX install onto that disk.  I 
> booted that CD and it got to the "pick a disk" and it didn't even list 
> the HDD!
> 
> I was wondering about a possible firmware update on the B&W that might 
> accommodate large HDD's, but didn't find any through Apple or Google.
> 
> I have the disk "jumpered" (actually to jumper it as Master is to have 
> no jumper) as the master and plugged onto the tiny little cable that it 
> came with.  Maybe I need to set it to cable-select, instead...
> 
> I'm going to put the OS 9.2.2 disk back on to see that it still boots 
> it, to make sure the ATA controller hasn't gone south on me.
> 
> Anyone have any useful suggestions for how to proceed?  I've checked the 
> past 4mos of mailing list archives, but found nothing to solve the problem.
> 
> Surely there are people running YDL3.0 on B&W G3's, so it has to be 
> possible.  If I need to, I can put YDL on the 6Gb drive and use the 20Gb 
> as other parts of the filesystem, but I'd like to know that's the only 
> way to go before I dismantle that installation.  And I'd really like to 
> have the system be dual-boot with each OS on it's own drive...
> 
> Thanks!
> -Michael
> 
> P.S. Is there a way to search all the archives for strings?  I'll I've 
> found so far is that I can list the archive contents by subject, author, 
> and thread, but that might allow me to miss something useful...  Thx!
> 
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