G3 not booting from Master HD. from slave gets bomb in OS 9.2

G3 B&W, 350 mhz, 320 Ram under 10.3.9 or 9.2. 2 HD's - 100 gb master with 10.3.9, partitioned into 6 drives, and slave is original 30gb under 9.2, partitioned into 4 drives.
I was having trouble with it yesterday, so I put the 10.3 install disk in to run disk utility. I went to the strat up disk controls and set it to start up from the CD. Restarted and it came up under Mac OS 9.2. Not a big deal, but wouldn't fully load. Gets to the startup screen and the progress bar goes for a little bit, then I get the bomb icon. I can't get it to boot from CD, and I can't get it to boot from old 9.1 rescue disk. I know the CD works, but won't boot from it. I tried disconnecting the slave drive but then I get the blinking ?, and nothing else. No chime noise either. Where do I go from here?
Message was edited by: daisymac

Prior to this, was your G3 running without problems? None of the 350 MHz B&W G3s originally shipped with a 30 GB hard drive - it was either a 6 GB or 12 GB. Are the two drives connected to an ATA controller PCI card or do you have a Revision 2 B&W G3? If you're not sure, check out this "Accelerate Your Mac" article and scroll down to the section entitled "Revised IDE Controller Chip." The first revision IDE controller doesn't support master/slave configuration of dual drives or support larger/faster IDE drives (typically 40 GBs —>) without data integrity issues. There have been reports in the Forums from users who successfully installed a 20 or 30 GB hard drive in their Revision 1 B&W G3s without stability problems, but that doesn't seem to be the norm. That's why I asked whether you have an ATA controller card or the Revision 2 motherboard.
“Restarted and it came up under Mac OS 9.2... Gets to the startup screen and the progress bar goes for a little bit, then I get the bomb icon.”
This makes me think that the OS 9.2 System build was created from another Mac’s Restore disk, and not from a universal/retail OS 9.x installer CD. It seems to choke, when it attempts to load an incompatible extension. Is the "9.1 rescue disk" that you're using a Restore disk for another Mac or is it a universal/retail version OS 9.1 installer disk? If the former, that could explain the inability to boot from it. As for the optical drive, be sure that the ribbon cable is firmly inserted at the rear of the drive and that the cable hasn't been damaged in any way. If it’s the original 11 year-old drive, it may need to be replaced. If you decide to do so, get a DVD±RW drive.

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