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

[Norberto Quintanar]

try CMD-OPT-O-F to drop you into OF, and tell us what you get.

--- matthew dechant <> wrote:

> 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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