From current XPF instructions:
# There is an 8 GB limit that applies when installing Mac OS X on an ATA drive on an "Old World" machine. The issue is that the firmware drivers for the built-in ATA bus on Old World machines will not access past the 8 GB mark. This means that Mac OS X must be installed on the first partition, and that partition must be less than 8 GB in size. The Mac OS X Installer knows about this, and will refuse to install if it detects the problem. Unfortunately, the Mac OS X Installer also refuses to install on ATA drives connected to PCI cards on Old World machines, even though that would actually work. Complicating this further is that some ATA cards "pretend" to be SCSI cards in Mac OS X, while others do not. I have a few ideas about how to work around some of these issues, but have not implemented that yet.
and
# Volumes partitioned in Mac OS X are not bootable on older machines -- the utilities that work are Apple's Drive Setup (in Mac OS 9.x) and Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools.
... but I don't think those would apply to your situation.
Still, if you reformat the drive under OS 9 you should be able to eliminate that factor.
GWW
On 11 May 2005, at 18:59, Larry wrote:
I didn't partition the the 16G drive for the simple reason that I have another HD to boot off if needed.
I thought partitioning the drive was optional. But I can go back and use my
OS 9 utilities to partition it and try it again.
Larry
--- Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can get the 16GB IBM drive to boot to OS 9.2 but I still can't get it
to boot to the OSX.
Can you answer two questions?
1. How many partitions on the 16G drive? 2. Did you partition the drive with OS 9 or OS X?
If the answer to the first is "1" or the answer to the second is "OS X"
then you have probably identified the problem right there.
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