[G4] please help

[Doug McNutt]

At 17:49 -0500 8/28/05, Bob Schmidt wrote:
>I went into the firmware and did a nvram-reset, set-default, reset-all and the computer rebooted but when installing 10.2 it still does not see the hard drive. If I try to boot with the 9.1 cd it comes up with a disk and a flashing "?".

It really ought to boot with the OS 9 CD but it may have to have an AppleHFS+ partition on the internal disk to work with.

Have you tried booting with the OS 10.2 CD-ROM? If you can you should be able to use Disk Utility from it to partition the 17 GB disk.

My thinking is that Yellow Dog took over the entire hard disk instead of a previously prepared partition.

And. . . I'm quite sure that all G4's were shipped with an ATA (Windoze - like) port for the internal hard disk. SCSI would require a PCI card or something else. You can add one more disk to the ATA bus for Linux. If you really have a SCSI disk there may be a problem initializing the PCI interface for it.


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