Just curious

[GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1]

markov at tele2.be wrote:

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>>Some of you may remember this thread from awhile back.  As an update, I 
>>finally got around to repartitioning my B&W HD as it should be.  Now my 
>>bootstrap is located on HDA9, OS9 is HDA11 and OSX is HDA13.  The 
>>original problem I had was that when I went into OS9 and tried to 
>>restart the computer, it would hang, basically just a blank screen.  Now 
>>that I have redone everything, both OSX and OS9 cause this problem!  The 
>>only time I get the yaboot screen is when I restart from YDL.  The 
>>original problem was thought to be because of the odd location of my 
>>bootstrap drive but now it's in the "right" location.  Any ideas?
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>Do you have an extra PCI-IDE card?
>The ide is faulty on rev A machines...
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>I have a BW that doesn't want to install os X.
>It might be the ram, maybe the ide chip.
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>It seems to run ydl when I install with one 64mb chip, 
>then hit the cuda button(cold) when I add new ram, AND do a
>hdparm -X34 /dev/hda  
>just after reboot. (before you start a session in kde, otherwise
>it can hang.)  I have already been working for about 2hrs, then shut
>down the machine...
>I deleted the irda package, as it got broke after a crash too...
>I guess the bw doesn't like to be peeked around in his brain...
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Nope, just a single 80 Gb multi-partitioned HD.  Besides, it is a rev B 
system.  

Just a message from Doug...