Recover disk partitions on a 3400

Longman, Bill yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 30 May 2003 09:09:56 -0700


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.