didius
Well-known member
Hi
I have a macintosh plus (4 Mb) and would like it to boot from an external hard drive.
I don't succeed however to do that. What am I doing wrong?
This is the setup:
(please note the battery is missing)
The back of my plus:
The back of the drive:
The drive:
(Have i terminated everything correctly?)
Look at this movie of the bootup first.
http://webs.hogent.be/~054169dv/mac/boot.mpg
As you can see, i boot up the drive first, and then i boot up my macintosh plus. However it keeps asking for a system disk.
So i insert a system disk.
Booting up gives me the following dekstop:
(note: the hard drive show up)
About Finder shows the following:
The contents of my hard drive:
(Note: the system folder is blessed)
The information dialog of my hard drive:
The contents of the system folder on my hard drive:
I get the following error when i try to open something on my floppy disk:
And when i try to open up finder on my hard drive:
I can switch to the finder on my hard drive by opening finder with opt+command
But when i try to open a file then i get the following:
Anyone knows what's the problem?
I have a macintosh plus (4 Mb) and would like it to boot from an external hard drive.
I don't succeed however to do that. What am I doing wrong?
This is the setup:
(please note the battery is missing)
The back of my plus:
The back of the drive:
The drive:
(Have i terminated everything correctly?)
Look at this movie of the bootup first.
http://webs.hogent.be/~054169dv/mac/boot.mpg
As you can see, i boot up the drive first, and then i boot up my macintosh plus. However it keeps asking for a system disk.
So i insert a system disk.
Booting up gives me the following dekstop:
(note: the hard drive show up)
About Finder shows the following:
The contents of my hard drive:
(Note: the system folder is blessed)
The information dialog of my hard drive:
The contents of the system folder on my hard drive:
I get the following error when i try to open something on my floppy disk:
And when i try to open up finder on my hard drive:
I can switch to the finder on my hard drive by opening finder with opt+command
But when i try to open a file then i get the following:
Anyone knows what's the problem?