Cannot boot YDL from SCSI (3)

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

You needed to repartition the SCSI drive under OS9 before running Disk
Druid. Perhaps you skipped that step? BTW, when you have SCSI, booting with
the option key can take up to half an hour or more for all the icons to show
up.
-- 
"Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do."
                                                        --National Lampoon

> From: drl@winternet.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:24:07 -0600 (CST)
> Cc: drl@winternet.com
> Subject: Cannot boot YDL from SCSI (3)
> 
> (Apologies, I've posted to newbie, then again to newbie, then to
> general.)
> 
> Hi.  I am attempting to install YDL 3.0.1 on a dual-CPU G4.  I
> had installed a previous version with no trouble.
> 
> The difference is that the former version was installed onto an
> IDE drive and this version is being installed onto a SCSI drive.
> 
> Currently, OS9 and Panther are installed on the Apple-supplied
> 30 GB IDE drive.  It's set to Master.  I have also installed an
> 80 GB drive (for fast backups), set to Slave.  The SCSI disk
> accepts the installation (and it had been in use in an AMD box
> with MS XP on it, so I'm confident it works).  The only
> out-of-the-ordinary activity was that I partitioned the drive
> with Disk Druid for many separate partitions (I want to avoid
> dealing with /tmp and /var getting out of control).
> 
> I have earlier this week installed Fedora on said AMD box, so I
> am comfortable with how the Druid seems to work.  The only real
> difference between the two at this stage was that one needs to
> declare a 1MB Apple boot partition in the Apple environment.
> 
> The symptoms were that, after the install and reboot, the screen
> stayed gray.  I have earlier noted that trying to special-boot
> via a KVM does not work, but I attached the Apple keyboard.
> Using cmd-opt-shift-del allowed me to boot into OS9.  I can go
> back and forth between OS9 and Panther, but the YDL install does
> not show up on the OS9 or Panther desktops.
> 
> Interestingly, Panther recognized the MS XP partitions before I
> installed YDL, so SCSI drivers are clearly in place in Panther.
> There is no such recognition of the YDL partitions.  However,
> re-installing shows that Druid can read the partition table, and
> my many partitions seem to have been recorded.  Panther does
> complain about a "disk inserted" that is not recognized, and I
> then click the "Ignore" button.
> 
> I have tried the OF sequence to list the boot choices, but aside
> from a pretty blue background, 2 icons, and a spinning clock
> cursor, nothing happens.  I gave it 10 minutes to figure stuff
> out before I rebooted.
> 
> I have read the "Companion to Installing", and, although there
> are a number of scenarios for disk configurations, I see nothing
> to give me help about this.
> 
> I looked through some documents on Open Firmware at Apple
> Support, hoping there was an easy way to tell the box to change
> the order in which the drives are read for booting.  However,
> the OF seems very complex, and I did nit find an answer.  I'm
> not afraid of complexity if it's justified, but being a perfect
> perl programmer (i.e.  lazy), I thought I'd ask before looking
> for answers down deep in the guts of the OF.
> 
> Summary: I wish to boot from a SCSI disk on which I have
> installed YDL 3.0.1.  It seems as if I need to change to boot
> disk order, but I don't see how.
> 
> Solutions or other explanations of my problem are welcomed ...
> cheers, drl