B&W G3. No boot from old OS disk or YDL on hard drive, boots from YDL CD

[matthew dechant]

I have a related question. I asked this a while ago, and now I have more
info to add.

Blue and White G3.
Boots off the YDL disks I made, find the hard drive, and appears to install
YDL, no problem.
Won't boot to YDL upon restart. Only boots to open firmware prompt or
question mark if left alone.
Tried an ATA IDE, SCSI, and regular IDE drive, no go.

More puzzling, and in reference to this thread, it also won't boot off a
purchased OS 9 CD, nor will it boot off a beige G3 install disk. Also tried
a hard drive with operational OS 8.something I pulled from a beige G3. All I
get is the question mark.

Reset Pram more times than I want to count and pulled the battery overnight.
I also put new Ram in it.

I thought maybe (after some reading) that I needed to upgrade to firmware on
the machine, so that's when I tried to install a version of OS, because it
appears that you can't do it from a CD?? Is this most likely the problem,
firmware?

Is there something wrong with the machine maybe?

-matt

-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf Of
yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:41 PM
To: yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: [OT] - Downloadable Mac OS

Yeppers, I have an 8 disc and an 8.1 disc.  But since I am trying to install
YDL without a parallel mac os install I was hoping to do it without the
media they shipped with.  Hence my asking about free Mac OS download; all
free software would have been perfect.  I also have a G3 specific CD for an
iMac.  But I'm not interested in that....

--- yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> To me that suggests you have two licences to install Mac OS 8.0 or 
> 8.1!
> 
> Eric.
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:47:29 -0700 (PDT):
> 
> > Thanks Clint, it's a G3/266 rev. 1 I've got an 8.0/8.1 disc, and
> a G3
> > Mac OS install disc.  Since I come from a Windows world I'm more 
> > familiar with the draconian EULA's that accompany PC's.



		
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