Powerbook 5300c & booting from CF cards (PCMCIA & as IDE drive)

Hi all,
I'm trying to "upgrade" my vintage PB 5300c and replace the internal noisy slow HD to using CF cards via the IDE-CF card adaptors.
in theory, this should be pretty easy.. format the CF card as HFS, install OS (trying 8.1), connect everything and reboot.
however, I'm having severe difficulties. First, I couldn't get the 5300c to boot off the CF card via the PC card slot at all (ejects the CF card not finding any OS on it). This, I managed to figure out that using HFS+ was a bad idea. So I reformatted the CF card to HFS (standard), and then re-installed 8.1. At least this time it would recognize a system folder and try to boot.. but soon after the MacOS splash screen it crashes stating "bus error". I managed to get it to reboot once while holding the shift key, but only that once.
I've tried installing the CF card to the IDE drive chain, and managed to get it boot in OS8.6, but it's kinda slow.. so I would really like to boot into 8.1...
But either way, I need to make sure I can boot this thing via pc slot before I put it back into the IDE drive bay. so under HFS, I have tried installing a fresh copy of OS8.6, 7.6, 8.1 to no avail. it still boots fine via the internal hard drive, or using SCSI external. I haven't tried putting the CF card back onto IDE bay yet.
What is wrong? is there something wrong with the motherboard/logic board that is preventing it from booting from CF? I'm starting to think there is something more sinister than just a plain-vanilla "bad OS installation".
All installation is done on the 5300c, either through an install disk image on the CF, or the internal HD, or "drag-drop" a known working OS onto the CF.
I have at my disposal, my trusty Al-PB G4 running Leopard (kinda useless other than downloading stuff from the net and loading on to CF to get it on the PBs), PB G3 Lombarde (somehwat useful, although it won't work under 8.1, so trying the installation on that machine is useless). I also do have another 5300c with a bad power connector (the solder ripped off) so i do have some spare parts to swap if needed...
any ideas what to do? I guess I can try to install OS7.5 (painful...) instead of 7.6 and see if that works... I'm totally baffled, and I'm starting to get a bit discouraged here...

Hmm some thoughts.
Try your old battery, the PRAM batteries in PowerBooks are rechargeable but in most cases they seem to require a battery in the slot. Not sure if it's to do with contacts needed to complete a circuit or they piggyback some of the power off the battery but on the Pismo's I've worked on the PRAM doesn't seem to want to take a charge or charges a lot slower without a battery.
I tried going back to OS 8.0 on the 5300 since I still have it loaded on a different Kingston 512MB CF card and on each restart it came up with the bus error so my best guess is that you need to try 8.5. I installed this from the retail version (green CD).
I have the 8.6 upgrade somewhere but have a feeling that might not work.
Also have 9 floating around so may try that on a bigger card when I have some spare time...
Just to recap, I'm using some pretty old Kingston 512MB CF cards. Back before we had all the different speed ratings so these are probably the slowest ones out there. I suppose the bus could be funky enough that the newer faster cards can have an issue so I'll try a faster card I have later.
Using a Kyrocera PCMCIA CF card adaptor in the top PCMCIA slot on the 5300cs and setting it to boot from the CF card in the startup disk control panel.
I'm installing the OS from an Apple 2X CD rom attached via the special PowerBook SCSI cable to the 5300 and running the install from this. I'm formatting the CF cards with the version of disk tools on the CD I'm loading the OS from.
Then doing a normal system installation on a clean CF card.
I pulled out another 5300cs and booted it from the OS 8.5 CF card no problems booting. Tried the OS 8 CF card and bus errors out every time.
Kevin

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