Recover disk partitions on a 3400

[Longman, Bill]

Thanks, I did manage to get it to boot off several MacOS disks (8.5, 9.0 and
9.1 even!)

I'm very surprised that it will boot off MacOS install disks but not a
Mandrake 9.1 PPC iso nor the YDL isos. What's the difference in the format?
Is it just straight ISO9660?

Bill


I would recommend getting a hold of an older system CD.  System 7.6 to 9.1
boots on a 3400.


If you have access to a Mac (with a burner) you can download this link:
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/
Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Maci
ntosh/System/Mac_OS_8.1_Update/Disk_Tools_PPC.img. bin

Uncompress it, burn the image to disk and you should be able to boot with it
(again
holding down "C" if the key hasn't busted yet).

Alternatively, try to find LinuxPPC2000 isos and burn them.  They might
still be around on some info-mac archives or maybe even Cheap Bytes places.
I had LinuxPPC2000 (not Q3... the release before) and it booted from CD on a
3400 and had a disk partitioning tool as one of the first steps.

The Old-world bootable CD is one of the things that's sadly lacking on every
other ppclinux distro, including YDL.

Cheers!
-----Original Message----- 

Sent: Fri 5/30/2003 5:09 PM 
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Subject: RE: Recover disk partitions on a 3400


It's not booting off ANY disk. It won't boot off the YDL disk, either. It's
only trying to boot off the hard disk. Is there some option in OF to get it
to boot off the CD?

> If I am not mistaken, a powerbook 3400 can not run Mac OS 9.2
> at all. 
> HTe last supported OS it could run is Mac OS 9.1.  Mac OS 9.2
> requires
> a G3 or G4. So you will have to boot from a 9.1 CD
>
> Andy
>
>
> On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 04:54 PM, Longman, Bill wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Andy!
> >
> > It's, um, not booting off the CD, though. I've got a 9.2.1
> CD and it
> > doesn't
> > even seem to seek on that disk. All I get is the
> > QuestionMark-FloppyDisk and
> > a whirring sound that repeats every five seconds from the internal
> > drive.
> >
> > I can get to Open Firmware 2.0.1 but that's it.
> >
> > Where to from here?....
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >> Boot from an OS 8.6 or OS 9.x cd and repartition the hard
> >> drive leaving
> >> the partition as Unallocated.
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