B&W G3. No boot from old OS disk or YDL on hard drive, boots from YDL CD

[Norberto Quintanar]

--- matthew dechant <> wrote:

> OK, I fixed it. Here was the solution, which may have been obvious
> to
> everyone but me.
> 
> The IDE drive I was using was not original to the machine,
> therefore it had
> not been formatted by a mac OS. As soon as I got my hands on the
> original OS
> 8.6 disk, and initialized the disk, and installed OS 8.6, the
> machine
> functioned. I then restarted with the YDL cd, and removed all OS
> partitions
> except for the one I couldn't remove, and made the default YDL
> partitions,
> and it worked perfectly. 
> 
> Now I thought that YDL was supposed to install without any native
> Apple
> partitions (except for the Apple bootstrap part. Installed by the
> YDL
> install)?
> 
> Secondly, I was using an Adaptec aha2940 SCSI controller (not mac
> specific,
> called power domain or something), which YDL recognized perfectly,
> but Open
> Firmware did not. There are apparantly very few cards supported by
> OF, which
> of course in both cases above, you FIRST need OF to support it and
> recognize
> it as a bootable disk, even if YDL doesn't have a problem with it.
> 
> Well, hope this helps someone else.
> 
> -m

Congratulations on figuring out your own problem!  I don't  think it
was obvious to a lot of people; a lot of us tried to help you and we
couldn't figure it out.  Enjoy your YDL install.

NQ


		
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