KT4V : no boot from SCSI

I changed the Motherboard from KT3 Ultra to KT4V und now there is no boot from Scsi possible! The bootprozess ends with a message like 'press Shift Tab to view networkboot options'. I'm not able to enter the Bios if any of my hostadapters are installed. Without Scsi-hostadapter the system boots from Floppy as expected.
Even if I disable the onboard NIC the well known network boot message will appear ! The Eide-Ports are also disabled !!
Config:
KT4V ( Bios V1.7 )
2100+
Enermax 465
G.E.I.L. 512MB 433Cl2
GF4Ti4600
Creativ Audigy
SYM 22910 ( Dualchannel LVD )
SYM 22801 ( Dualchannel SE )
any hints ?

So happens I have another KT4V board bought earlier. I put the SCSI card in it and it worked. It has BIOS REV 1.3. So I put 1.3 on the other board that started with REV1.0A ended with 1.8 , and would not boot with SCSI card in. It worked perfectly with the 1.3 REV and does show the SCSI as a boot option. Problem solved. Next.
Thanks for all the support suggestions MSI (';(')

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I was able to boot to the SCSI DVD on my abit motherboard whats different now.
Any Sugestions.
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hi
i have VM's in Hyper V windows server 2012 data center edition.
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Hello:
I'm having a problem trying to install Windows 8.1 Professional on a new Gen 2 VM. I created a new Gen 2 VM using Hyper-V Manager running on Windows Server 2012 R2 and then told it to boot off DVD drive which pionts to the ISO file that I copied to the E:
drive. The ISO file mounted in the virtual DVD drive is the Windows 8.1 Professional x64 VL ISO that I downloaded off of TechNet. When I start up the VM to install the OS, I receive this error:
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controller?
Or is there a bug with the Hyper-V SCSI controller that makes it unable to boot from ISOs properly?
-JP

Hi JP,
In addition , please try :
1. copy the ISO to an not shared local folder or drive
2. uncheck the "enable secure boot" in VM settings .
If the issue still persists , maybe you can try to down load a new ISO file then try to boot again .
Hope it helps
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Hey,
I have an MSI 845GMax that I can't get to boot from my SCSI CD-ROM.
I am trying to install XP and it just hangs at the "Setup is detecting your hardware..." prompt.
Any advice?
System info:
845GMax w/ P42.4B
Adaptec 29160 3.10.00 bios
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Well,
It's been a month and a half and have had no luck with MSI's support. I have found a couple of other users that suffer a similar problem to mine though.
So at least it's not me. Would be nice to hear from MSI support on this though.
Here is the description I sent in to tech support. Maybe they will read it here!
Here is a better description of my problem.
My system is all SCSI, no IDE. The board was used for a
week or 2 with IDE hard drive & CD-ROM and never had this long pause at boot.
If I boot a DOS floppy the system boots "normally".
That said let me tell you what my testing has shown.
Booting off CD-ROM:
Place bootable WindowsXP disk into cdrom & hit power.
Get the AMI BIOS logo
then SCSI card bios...Finds the HD's, the CDRom & I get the
"bootable disk" banner
then the Intel NIC's bios banner
then back to the "second" AMI bios summary screen.
Get "press any key to boot CD" message from XP CDROM
Get "Setup is detecting your hardware" banner
~4 minutes later it boots & installs fine
Booting from Hard Drive
Hit power button
Get the AMI BIOS logo
then SCSI card bios...Finds the HD's & the CDRom
then the NIC's bios banner
then back to the "second" AMI bios screen.
then black screen for 2 for minutes
then XP's "booting XP" startup screen.
I also installed the XP "Recovery Console" (run winnt.exe /cmdcons) from
the XP install cd. Search help on XP for "recovery console" for more
info.
Booting with Recovery console boot menu:
press power button
Get the AMI BIOS logo
then SCSI card bios...Finds the HD's & the CDRom
then the NIC's bios banner
then back to the "second" AMI bios screen.
Get Microsoft Recovery console boot menu select "recovery console"
get "NTDETECT is checking your hardware..." message
(like the blue startup screen when WindowsNT booted)
it pauses for 2-4 minutes here
then it boots me into the recovery console.
It looks to me like it is NTDETECT.COM taking a long time to
detect all the installed hardware.
Any suggestions? Another user, who has the same problem only with a 2940 card and a SIS 648 board pointed me to:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q242518
Could MSI have released a (bunch of) bios that incorrectly
detects INT13 devices?
I would love to know!
-Will

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I have a P6N SLI motherboard with a SCSI card I'm trying to boot from. The BIOS sees the card (as indicated by the BIOS when "Quick Booting" is disabled), however, it doesn't run the option ROM on the card necessary for it to boot from the SCSI card. I've tried several different SCSI cards (BusLogic, LSI, QLogic, Adaptec) and using a couple different video cards, one of them PCI. The only things I have plugged into the board are the video card and the SCSI card. Nothing seems to work. Am I missing an option in the BIOS or something?
Thanks, Mark.

Quote from: Jack the Newbie on 13-October-07, 06:11:28
Did you ever try with devices attached to the SCSI card? After all, what you want to boot from in the end is a SCSI drive. Try hooking up a SCSI drive to the card, otherwise it is hard to tell if there even is a problem at all.
On the board I am using for example, the Intel ICH7DH RAID BIOS is only executed if there is more than one SATA drive hooked up to the ports hosted by the controller.
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2. IDE/SATA scan.
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4. After POST status screen - displays CPU, memory, any serial/parallel/USB IO configured and all devices initialized by the system BIOS and their assigned IRQs.
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A good explanation of what an option ROM can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_ROM
- Mark.

Solaris 10 x86 b72 "Cannot find boot.bin" booting from SCSI.

Hello,
After several gyrations of installation attempts and dealing with early BIOS PnP issues, I've finally managed to get Solaris 10 x86 installed on an old dual P2 333Mhz system. So far the system is running flawlessly, but I'm still not able to boot directly off the SCSI disk. The primary boot handler is erroring out that it cannot find boot.bin.
I can boot fine off of the IDE CD drive and the floppy (currently pointed to autoboot into the SCSI disk as a workaround). But when I try to boot directly off the SCSI drive, I get the error from the Solaris boot manager that it "Cannot find boot.bin".
I have booted off the CD & Floppy and compared the /boot files from both the CD & floppy, but I cannot find any difference that would prevent the primary boot loader from finding boot.bin. I've even compared files to make sure they were not corrupt, and even force re-installed the boot handlers, and manually partioning, always with the same results. I've also tried both enabling and disabling the DOS >1G translation of the Adaptec SCSI BIOS with no change. I can't find any reason that the boot loader is not seeing boot.bin, or that the file is corrupt in any way (even after several wipe and install attempts).
My System is:
Supermicro P6DLS dual Pentium II 333MHz & 512MB RAM, w/ Adaptec 7880 SCSI-UW and IDE (whopping UltraDMA 33) interfaces.
CD/DVD reader is configured as the secondary master (moved from primary master in an attempt to fix boot problem)
HD is a 16GB UW SCSI disk.
(Other particulars ommited unless someone feels they are relevant to the boot process).
The system came to me with Windows 2000 installed and functioning. I also had Fedora Core 3 installed, both with no boot problems of the SCSI disk. (Although FC3 would not see the second processor even with the canned SMP kernel).
This system is intended to replace a Fedora Core 3 system to be a multi-purpose firewall gateway & proxy server and I'm really liking the performance I'm seeing with Solaris 10 on this system but would like it to be able to go through a normal boot process and not have to depend on a floppy as a boot device to get started.
Anyone have any ideas why the Solaris x86 boot loaders think that they cannot find boot.bin when the full /boot partion is intact?
TIA,
-Troy

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It brings up the Solaris Primary Boot Subsystem, so
it appears to be reading fine, but the only thing
that happens is I get the Cannot find boot.bin
error.Hmm, the "Cannot find boot.bin." message comes from the
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of the media.
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dvd sector #1287840). This a byte offset of ~2.6 GBytes.
Maybe an issue with your system's bios not being able to read
DVD media > 2GB, during DVD boot?
Or a problem with burning the DVD media? Maybe some
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the 2.6 GB ISO filesystem, and the 100 MB Solaris UFS
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Do you have a pc / windows utility that can print some information
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Maybe your CD/DVD recording software?
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Mainboard PM8M-V cannot boot from SATA

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The SATA HDD is properly partitioned. Windows is installed on it, but it boots from an IDE HDD and then continues to load from the SATA.
I tried to set the bios to boot from SCSI, but in vain.
I checked if there is a bios update, but the MSI website linked me to Live Update 5, which even cannot find drivers for the mainboard, not to speak for a bios update.
The version of the BIOS is
Manufacturer : Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Version : 6.00 PG
Date : 03/23/2005 (mm/dd/yyyy)
HELP!

The boot options are:
Floppy, LS120, IDE0,SCSI,CDROM,IDE1,IDE2,IDE3,ZIP100,USB-FDD,USB-CDROM,USB-HDD,LAN,DISABLED
I tried to remove the IDE HDD (also no USB drives were connected) while installing windows, it won't boot anyway.
Even if windows did not write correctly the MBR (well, I used the repair console to with FIXMBR and FIXBOOT), the BIOS should probably say something like "No boot sector", but it just hangs.
After that I installed with an IDE HDD connected.
Presuming that "as i recall boards of yours age listed all drives as ide" is true, shouldn't I have IDE5, since there are 4 IDE channels anyway? I will try all the IDE options, anyway.
I did not understand this question "is the make and size of the sata in that list"?
Quote from: Henry on 06-July-12, 07:31:06
It should ID the drive by model number or at least by brand & size as Wonkanoby said, at least it does on newer MBs.
Some options of the device are shown during boot (some RAID adjustments), but it is not displayed anywhere in the BIOS setup.
Also, on most bioses during oot a message is displayed "Press key XXX for boot options", but this one does not display something like this. Any clue if there could be such a key? F1 and F8 do not work.

Booting from a SATA controller not recognized by BIOS.

I have an USB install of Arch Linux and it works pretty well for me, I can access the files on the SATA drive, browse the intarwebs and code, but I can't really paint on it and that forces me to have a Windows installation on the hard drive.
But the problem is that the BIOS doesn't see the disk and since it isn't a Linux kernel I can't refer to it through UID and I'm not entirely sure GRUB can see non-BIOS disks either, which doing ls from GRUB commandline seems to confirm, as it only lists the USB stick and it's partitions. Is there any GRUB 2 module or other way to have it recognize the disk plugged into the controller, so I can chainload into Windows?
The Windows bootloader seems to be capable of booting from a disk not recognized by BIOS so as long as I chainload into it I guess it'll be all right.
I heard there is some way to stuff the Windows bootloader onto a pendrive or even force the controller BIOS into motherboard BIOS, but I'd rather avoid this and stick with GRUB if possible.
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01:08.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
I/O ports at a000 [size=16]
I/O ports at a400 [size=16]
I/O ports at a800 [size=16]
I/O ports at ac00 [size=16]
I/O ports at b000 [size=32]
I/O ports at b400 [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [e0] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: sata_via
Kernel modules: sata_via
Thanks in advance.

No it doesn't and the mobo doesn't have such a setting.
In the end I searched for the controller BIOS on the intarwebs and ended up modyfing the motherboard BIOS to include it with cbrom, though I had to sacrifice the netboot module for it to fit; I didn't use anyway, so no big loss. By chance I didn't screw up anything during flashing and now there is a controller RAID prompt after the usual BIOS screen and I can boot from"SCSI" which is the SATA disk. I can now install Windows no problem and GRUB2 recognizes the disk on it's own too.
But I don't really like this modyfing BIOS stuff, is there seriously no way to do it, save maybe writing my own GRUB2 module by gleaning the code of sata_via kernel module?
Also at some point I think I made ntldr see the disk with unmodified mobo BIOS, but I don't remeber how exactly I did it and anyway the USB with bootloader became 0-th drive, so the Windows of course wouldn't boot (why doesn't it have drivemap, duh). It would be best if I somehow made GRUB2 see this disk with unmodified BIOS and then drivemap and fire the ntldr, but if that can't be done, then oh well.

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Install fails with following.
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ERROR: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds
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I need the Arch install to work from the SCSI DVD drive on my system. I'm trying to develop an Arch distro for my particular system, which there are about a dozen of in the field, they all have SCSI DVD and no IDE drives. Will I have to add a SCSI driver to the boot kernel? Or is my problem something else?
I notice there is no /dev/disk/by-label (ther is a /dev/disk/by-id by-label and by-uuid).
I do a:
"[ramfs /]# lsmod | grep sr_mod"
sr_mod 14951 0
cdrom 36329 1 sr_mod
scsi_mod 131482 7 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata,mptspi,mptscsih,scsi_transport_spi
[ramfs /]# lsmod | grep scsi
mptscsih 20040 1 mptspi
mptbase 63459 2 mptspi,pmtscsih
scsi_transport_spi 20059 1 mptspi
scsi_mod 131482 7 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata,mptspi,mptscsih,scsi_stransport_spi

scrath "I notice there is no /dev/disk/by-label (ther is a /dev/disk/by-id by-label and by-uuid)."
Should be: I notice there is no /dev/disk/by-label (there is a /dev/disk/by-id by-path and by-uuid).

Why can't I boot from an external scsi drive?

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What am I doing wrong?
Dave

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Hello,
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I added everything, then booted the Panther install CD's. The installer initially did not see the drive, but I just had to go to Utilities and format the new drive (I used Mac OS extended - Journaled filesystem). The install went fine on SCSI, then the computer rebooted.
After reboot it loaded up into OS 9, and wont see the SCSI disk.
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-John

found the URL by chance
http://adaptec-tic.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/adaptectic.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3549&p_created=1008846164&p_sid=phPd-Bbi &p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjMmcF9wcm9 kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz0wJnBfcHY9JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9 wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1vcGVuIGZpcm13YXJl&p_li=&ptopview=1
This DOES WORK!

Not booting from 10.4.8 volumes after upgrade from 10.4.7

I'm sorry to report that my aged G4 450 MHz AGP with 4 internal Hard disk drives no longer boots from any of the 2 volumes upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4.8 as soon as it was started from another volume!
All was working fine as long as 10.4.7 was installed on the 2 232 GB disks connected to the SIIG ATA133 controller. I could boot from any OS on any of the 4 disks, 5 partitions:
internal ATA66 bus:
18 GB disk, 2 partitions: 'IBM_18GB' with OS 9.2.2 and TechTool Pro's 'eDrive' with 10.4.7
71 GB disk, 1 partition 'IBM_71GB' with OS 9.2.2
PCI SIIG ATA133 controller:
232 GB disk, one partition 'I1232GB' with 10.4.7, now upgraded to 10.4.8 and no longer bootable
232 GB disk, one partition 'I2232GB' with 10.4.7, now upgraded to 10.4.8 and no longer bootable
Now I can only boot from the Mac OS 9.2.2 or the eDrive 10.4.7 partitions.
What I did so far: 'I2232GB' was my main OS X startup volume, 'I1232GB' contains a clone of it, plus additional folders like software base and backups.
After upgrading 'I2232GB' to Mac OS X 10.4.8 through Software Update and repairing permissions all was OK as long as the Mac was just shut down or re-started: it always booted up in Mac OS X 10.4.8 from 'I2232GB' without any problems.
The next day I booted from 'I1232GB' to do the same there.
Afterwards I could no longer boot in Mac OS X 10.4.8 from 'I2232GB' nor in in Mac OS X 10.4.8 from 'I1232GB': it just gets to the grey screen with the Apple logo, but the round circle underneath indicating some progress never appears. I left it there for hours: it just hangs.
With the Option key held at startup I could boot from the other partitions with Mac OS 9.2.2 or the eDrive with 10.4.7. None of their Startup Control Panels was able to get me back to 10.2.8!
So I booted from the TechTool Pro 4.5.1 DVD to Optimize both volumes, 'I1232GB' & 'I2232GB', always Files only.
Then I booted from the DiskWorrior 3.0.3 CD to rebuild the directories of both volumes, 'I1232GB' & 'I2232GB'.
Still I can not boot from either 'I1232GB' or 'I2232GB' in Mac OS X 10.2.8!
Downloaded the Mac OS X 10.2.8 Compo Update (for PPC) and installed it onto both 'I1232GB' & 'I2232GB' while booted from the eDrive which I keep on Mac OS X 10.4.7 - no luck either, still I can not boot from either 'I1232GB' or 'I2232GB' in Mac OS X 10.2.8!
Then I backed up the users folder from 'I2232GB' onto 'I1232GB', booted from Mac OS 9.2.2 and used Intech's Hard Disk Speedtools 3.6 to format 'I2232GB', afterwards initialized it with Alsoft's Plus Maximizer Extension for a Block Size of 512 Bytes.
Installed Mac OS X 10.4 from DVD, as well as iLive '06 and upgraded everything to the latest releases with Software Update. All was working fine with all the required reboots until another startup volume was chosen: afterwards again I can no longer boot back into Mac OS X 10.2.8 on the fresch installed 'I2232GB'!
Any help would be appreciated.
Here is some information found by System Profiler from Mac OS X 10.4.7, eDrive, let me know if you need more:
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)
Machine Model: PowerMac3,1
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.8)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 450 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 100 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.2.8f1
Serial Number: XA00715VHSF
Sales Order Number: M7628LL/A
ATA Bus:
IBM-DPTA-372050:
Capacity: 19.12 GB
Model: IBM-DPTA-372050
Volumes:
IBM_18GB:
Capacity: 13.12 GB
Available: 6.96 GB
eDrive:
Capacity: 6 GB
Available: 3.03 GB
IBM-DTLA-307075:
Capacity: 71.59 GB
Model: IBM-DTLA-307075
Volumes:
IBM_71GB:
Capacity: 71.59 GB
Available: 39.65 GB
ATA Bus:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D:
Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D
Firmware Revision: 1.21
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2000 KB
IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI:
Model: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI
ACARD,6880M:
Name: ACARD,6880M
Type: scsi
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-C
Vendor ID: 0x1191
Device ID: 0x0009
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1191
Subsystem ID: 0x0009
Revision ID: 0x0003
SCSI Parallel Domain 65536:
Initiator Identifier: 7
ATA HDT722525DLAT80:
Capacity: 232.89 GB
Manufacturer: ATA
Model: HDT722525DLAT80
Revision:
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
OS9 Drivers: Yes
SCSI Target Identifier: 0
SCSI Logical Unit Identifier: 0
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
I1232GB:
Capacity: 232.89 GB
Available: 14.1 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s3
Mount Point: /Volumes/I1232GB
ATA HDT722525DLAT80:
Capacity: 232.89 GB
Manufacturer: ATA
Model: HDT722525DLAT80
Revision:
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk3
OS9 Drivers: Yes
SCSI Target Identifier: 2
SCSI Logical Unit Identifier: 0
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
I2232GB:
Capacity: 232.89 GB
Available: 180.11 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk3s3
Mount Point: /Volumes/I2232GB
The RAM consists of 4 identical modules and is about 1 year old:
DIMM0/J21 to DIMM3/J24:
Size: 512 MB
Type: SDRAM
Speed: PC133-333
Status: OK
Many thanks for your help!
Josef
Apple G4 AGP Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4 internal hard disks, dual layer DVD-RW, 2GB RAM

What I did so far: 'I2232GB' was my main OS X
startup volume, 'I1232GB' contains a clone of it,
plus additional folders like software base and
backups.
After upgrading 'I2232GB' to Mac OS X 10.4.8
through Software Update and repairing permissions all
was OK as long as the Mac was just shut down or
re-started: it always booted up in Mac OS X 10.4.8
from 'I2232GB' without any problems.
The next day I booted from 'I1232GB' to do the same
there.
Afterwards I could no longer boot in Mac OS X 10.4.8
from 'I2232GB' nor in in Mac OS X 10.4.8 from
'I1232GB': it just gets to the grey screen with the
Apple logo, but the round circle underneath
indicating some progress never appears. I left it
there for hours: it just hangs.
With the Option key held at startup I could boot from
the other partitions with Mac OS 9.2.2 or the eDrive
with 10.4.7. None of their Startup Control Panels was
able to get me back to 10.4.8!
So I booted from the TechTool Pro 4.5.1 DVD to
Optimize both volumes, 'I1232GB' & 'I2232GB',
always Files only.
Then I booted from the DiskWorrior 3.0.3 CD to
rebuild the directories of both volumes, 'I1232GB'
& 'I2232GB'.
Still I can not boot from either 'I1232GB' or
'I2232GB' in Mac OS X 10.4.8!
Downloaded the Mac OS X 10.4.8 Compo Update (for PPC)
and installed it onto both 'I1232GB' & 'I2232GB'
while booted from the eDrive which I keep on Mac OS X
10.4.7 - no luck either, still I can not boot from
either 'I1232GB' or 'I2232GB' in Mac OS X
10.4.8!
Then I backed up the users folder from 'I2232GB'
onto 'I1232GB', booted from Mac OS 9.2.2 and used
Intech's Hard Disk Speedtools 3.6 to format
'I2232GB', afterwards initialized it with Alsoft's
Plus Maximizer Extension for a Block Size of 512
Bytes.
Installed Mac OS X 10.4 from DVD, as well as iLive
'06 and upgraded everything to the latest releases
with Software Update. All was working fine with all
the required reboots until another startup volume was
chosen: afterwards again I can no longer boot back
into Mac OS X 10.4.8 on the fresch installed
'I2232GB'!
I found several typos in above post, wherever it was 10.2.8 it should have read 10.4.8 - I'm very sorry for confusing you, this would not have made sense, but I found no way to edit the existing text therefore I modified the quote of it here.
I do not need Mac OS X 10.2.8 back, but it would be nice to boot back in Mac OS X 10.4.8 from another volume as the current one - which was working fine before with Mac OS X 10.4.7.
Many thanks,
Josef

KT4V : no boot from SCSI

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