Mark,
Your problems seem eerily similar to one I had recently. I was successful in installing YDL 4.0.1 on my B&W G3/450
onto a partition on a 20Gb IDE (the other partition was HFS+) and there are three SCSI disks internally also. Stock video,
nothing else out of the ordinary except the IDE CD-ROM which is a no-name 52x24x24 CD-RW. The install went fine,
except that on reboot the yaboot did not allow a valid startup so I bailed.
The weird thing is that when I tried to do the same install on my Pismo/400, the CD refused to boot at all! I got a blank screen
and had to force-boot to restart.
Email me off-list if you want to know why I'm glad 4.0.1 did not install on the laptop.
Mark On Feb 24, 2005, at 5:52 PM, Mark Walker wrote:
Situation: B & W G3 (rev 2) with 1 GB RAM, 350MHz G3 processor (original), one 60 GB WD600 HDD (master) and one 40 GB WD400 HDD (slave), Sony cdrw, SIIG ATA 133 pci card, stock ATI Rage graphics card. OS 9.2.2 installed on the slave drive. The master drive is formatted Mac OS Extended with nothing on it. The plan is to install YDL 4 on the master and dual boot. This will go to the kids, as I now have a G5 iMac.
Problem: I cannot boot the install disk (downloaded and burned on my iMac and another on a Windows XP box) when I hold the "c" key upon boot. It will not boot from the Open Firmware prompt with "boot cd:,\\yaboot" command. I get the response cannot open cd. I also get that message using YDL 2.3 disk and Mac OS 9 disk, when trying to boot from OF. In fact I can rarely get it to boot from the OS 9 install cd. It will not go the the OF prompt with ctrl, opt, o, f key combination. I had to install System Disk 2.3.1 from Apple in order to get to the OF prompt. I've reset the nvram, both with cmd, opt, o, p key combination and with reset-nvram and reset-all in OF. Before I'm told the disk wasn't burned properly, it will boot on my iMac. I also could not boot a YDL 2.3 production disk from Terrasoft. The strangest part is that I installed YDL 2.3 on the same G3 machine a few years ago, but did not have the SIIG Card and only had a 9 GB HHD. I did switch back to the IDE on the motherboard to with no change also. I can boot to a Darwin 7.x.x install disk and successfully install it. Which is my fall back option if I cannot get YDL installed. Will appreciate any help.
Mark
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