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Re: Darwin 1.3.1 on beige G3 won't boot : OF says "no bootable HFS partition"

I've got it running on my Beige G3. I installed in on a Maxtor Diamondmax+
40GB IDE drive:

- 1st 4GB MacOS 9.1 and MacOS X
- 2nd 4GB Darwin 1.3.1

My Startup Control Panel is 9.21. I am using the onboard Rage II+ video with
6MB VRAM. I do know that Darwin 1.2.x at least is quite fussy about this. I
could never get it to install when I was using a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 video card.

I think you need to make sure the partition is within the 1st 8GB of the
drive, same as of OS X. And it probably won't boot off a 3rd party SCSI
adapter. I tried install OS X on my SCSI drive connected to a PowerDomain
2940UW. Installation was ok, but it just wouldn't boot. So the same probably
applies to Darwin. The other thing I had to do when installing OS X was to
put an external terminator on the PowerDomain. Somehow the auto-termination
is not recognized.


Alvin


On Friday 04 May 2001 03:54, Rob Braun wrote:
> Yes, Darwin 1.3.1 appears not to work on Beige G3's. I have not been
> able to get it booting, and several other people have been unsuccessful
> as well. There was one report of success, but there was no indication
> of what that person did that we didn't do.
>
> Rob
>
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:40:33AM +0200, Stadelmann Patrick wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've installed Darwin 1.3.1 my PowerMac G3/233 rev B. The partition
> > size is 4 GB, and it's the first partition on the drive. I've followed
> > the instruction (select "Erase disk first" in ASR, and use HFS+) and
> > then I used the "Startup Disk" control panel to select the darwin
> > partition (it says it has a "Mac OS X" system on it). However, when
> > I restart the machine, I get the following message repeated 15 or 20
> > times : "no bootable HFS partition". Holding the option key boots in
> > Mac OS 9.1 without any problem.
> >
> > The G3 has 96 MB of RAM, and has no extra hardware. The hard disk
> > is not the Apple installed 4 GB, but was replaced by a IBM 30 GB
> > (master on IDE bus 0). Could it be that the disk is not supported
> > or not correctly set up ?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > P. Stadelmann
> > --
> > Patrick Stadelmann <email@hidden>
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References: 
 >Darwin 1.3.1 on beige G3 won't boot : OF says "no bootable HFS partition" (From: Stadelmann Patrick <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Darwin 1.3.1 on beige G3 won't boot : OF says "no bootable HFS partition" (From: Rob Braun <email@hidden>)



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