YDL install problems on a B&W G3

[John Knight]

I wasted a week trying to install on three different rev a bondi imacs. I tried
to install ydl 4.0, ubuntu, and knoppix. I could not get imacs to register the
"c" on boot up. The frustrating thing was a couple of times the imac did
see the cd and boot up.On other occasions, I was able to get into the
forth interpreter but didn't know what to do from there. Since I do
not have access
to the apple and do not know how to upgrade the firmware, I have given up.
It would have been nice :=(

This is my first experience with apple hw and I am not used to having a computer
be persnickety about booting from a boot device.  I must say I have a very bad 
impression of apple now. I had heard such good things about high quality hw.


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:52:05 -0800 (PST), Mark Walker
<mhwalker60 at yahoo.com> 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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