How can i get my Powerpc to boot from a PCIe drive

Question

Hi, I just upgraded my PowerMac G5 Quad 2.5 with 16GB of ram & two 1.8 tyrabite drives. My problem is, I also installed a Velocity solo x2 PCIe card
for a solid state drive. the system recogizes the drive but I'm having a problem with getting my system to boot from that PCIe card drive. Please if anyone
can help me I greatly appreciate it.

Answer 1

If you cannot get the ssd to boot, you can move folders to the ssd.
Unix command ln  -- The Unix make link command. I have a copy of virtual PC.  It insists on using a folder in my documents folder for saving all of the virtual machine information.  This folder is rather large.  I used the terminal command ln to move the folder to my external hard drive.  Virtual PC had no problem with this move.  I do not think that Mac applications notice the ln redirects. 
You can use the Unix command ln to redirect a reference to folder on your small partition to a folder on  your larger partition. You need to be careful when you pick the folder. You best avoid any system folder, those folders needed at startup. You could pick some user data folder.   Home folders, that is folders in /Users, are a good choice.  Please try this when you have a full backup.
mac harddrive > Applications > Utilities > Terminal
man ln
ln -s target source
example:
let's make like my Christmas card folder is on my desktop and make like the names is cards.
mac $ ls /Volumes   
GREEN/          Macintosh-HD@
mac $ ls /Volumes/GREEN/Christmas\ Cards/
10 - NeoOffice Writer.pdf*      christmasLabels.odt*
AddressList.ods*                env - NeoOffice Writer.pdf*
ChristmasAddressList.xls*       env.odt*
ChristmasAddressList0.odb*      getLabels.odt*
al.odb*
mac $ cd ~/Desktop/
mac $ pwd
/Users/mac/Desktop
mac $ ln -s /Volumes/GREEN/Christmas\ Cards/  cards
mac $ cd cards/
mac $ pwd
/Users/mac/Desktop/cards
mac $ ls
10 - NeoOffice Writer.pdf*      christmasLabels.odt*
AddressList.ods*                env - NeoOffice Writer.pdf*
ChristmasAddressList.xls*       env.odt*
ChristmasAddressList0.odb*      getLabels.odt*
al.odb*
mac $
An alternative way would be to install SymbolicLinker.  SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10433/
How to redirect your iPhoto and ITunes files to an external harddrive:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6058202#6058202
Robert