YDL install problems on a B&W G3

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

In order to boot from CD, the CD drive must be connected to the ATAPI bus
(not the ATA bus nor the SIIG card), and it must be jumpered master. There
is no way around this with current versions of yaboot. This is the most
likely cause. The second most likely cause is that the non-stock CD drive
has crippled firmware. You can test whether this is the case by sticking
the CD drive in a PC and trying to boot from it.

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:52:05 -0800, Mark Walker wrote:

> Situation: B & W G3 (rev 2) with 1 GB RAM, 350MHz G3
> processor (original), one 60 GB WD600 HDD (master) and
> one 40 GB WD400 HDD (slave), Sony cdrw, SIIG ATA 133
> pci card, stock ATI Rage graphics card.  OS 9.2.2
> installed on the slave drive.  The master drive is
> formatted Mac OS Extended with nothing on it.
> The plan is to install YDL 4 on the master and dual
> boot.  This will go to the kids, as I now have a G5
> iMac.
> 
> Problem:  I cannot boot the install disk (downloaded
> and burned on my iMac and another on a Windows XP box)
> when I hold the "c" key upon boot.  It will not boot
> from the Open Firmware prompt with "boot cd:,\\yaboot"
> command.  I get the response cannot open cd.  I also
> get that message using YDL 2.3 disk and Mac OS 9 disk,
> when trying to boot from OF.  In fact I can rarely get
> it to boot from the OS 9 install cd.  It will not go
> the the OF prompt with ctrl, opt, o, f key
> combination.  I had to install System Disk 2.3.1 from
> Apple in order to get to the OF prompt.  I've reset
> the nvram, both with cmd, opt, o, p key combination
> and with reset-nvram and reset-all in OF.
> Before I'm told the disk wasn't burned properly, it
> will boot on my iMac.  I also could not boot a YDL 2.3
> production disk from Terrasoft.  The strangest part is
> that I installed YDL 2.3 on the same G3 machine a few
> years ago, but did not have the SIIG Card and only had
> a 9 GB HHD.  I did switch back to the IDE on the
> motherboard to with no change also.  I can boot to a
> Darwin 7.x.x install disk and successfully install it.
>  Which is my fall back option if I cannot get YDL
> installed.
> Will appreciate any help.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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