[G4] Tiger upgrade

[Hal]

I had a similar problem after installing an SATA drive and OWC brand  
PCI-SATA card in my G4. From what I could gather on the OWC website,  
the G4 does not support setting the SATA drive as a boot drive, and  
gets confused. OWC recommends using the 'option' key at startup to  
then select the SATA drive for booting. I have found that if I have  
no other internal drives available to boot from, it will find the  
SATA drive after flashing the folder/question mark for a few seconds.

Hope this helps.

-Hal

On May 5, 2007, at 3:20 PM, s* wrote:

> Well, to eject your disc, you can always hold down the mouse button  
> on startup.  That will force your mac to eject the disc.  As for  
> boot up, have you tried holding down the alt/option key to see if  
> your mac is even recognising it as a startup disc?
>
> -s*
>
> On 5/5/07, lriv2264 at aim.com <lriv2264 at aim.com> wrote:
> I have a G4 that I'm trying to upgrade to OS X Tiger. I have two  
> new SATA drives connected to a PCI SATA host adapter. I install  
> Tiger to one of the drives and everything seems to install fine.  
> When the machine restarts however, the installer starts again and I  
> can't eject the dvd from the drive. To remove the dvd, I  
> reconnected the old hard drive ( with os x 10.3 on it ) and removed  
> it. I then went to the startup disk in system preferences and tried  
> to start the machine with the new os x. But on restart, all I get  
> is a folder that blinks with a picture of the finder in it. Please  
> help me boot into my new os ! Thanks.
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