YDL install problems on a B&W G3

[Mark Jaffe]

Mark,

Your problems seem eerily similar to one I had recently. I was 
successful in installing YDL 4.0.1 on my B&W G3/450
onto a partition on a 20Gb IDE (the other partition was HFS+) and there 
are three SCSI disks internally also. Stock video,
nothing else out of the ordinary except the IDE CD-ROM which is a 
no-name 52x24x24 CD-RW. The install went fine,
except that on reboot the yaboot did not allow a valid startup so I 
bailed.

The weird thing is that when I tried to do the same install on my 
Pismo/400, the CD refused to boot at all! I got a blank screen
and had to force-boot to restart.

Email me off-list if you want to know why I'm glad 4.0.1 did not 
install on the laptop.

Mark
On Feb 24, 2005, at 5:52 PM, 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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Mark Jaffe
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