LCGuy
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
So, about 5 years late, my iMac 333 is finally running Panther! However...there is a slight (big) problem....
The internal 24x notebook CD-ROM drive, well, lets just say its seen better days, and has trouble booting off CDs. Therefore, I had this great idea to use one of my many spare desktop IDE CD-ROM drives, and daisy-chain it off the iMac's primary IDE bus. Found my 8x Goldstar (LG) drive, which I've used in the past to boot the iMac, that did the job and I soon found myself installing Panther. After about an hour or so, the installation had completed without an issue, and my iMac was running Panther rather nicely. So after that, I decided to put the iMac back together the way God intended. Turn the machine on and I get a blinking question mark. I put in an OS 9 CD and made sure that the correct partition had been set as the startup disk (yes, I did make a partition within the first 8GB, which I installed Panther on). The iMac is back together, so that means it has its original CD-ROM drive, which as we know has trouble booting off CDs. So I pulled it apart, and hooked the Goldstar back up. I pressed the power switch, and all on its own accord, it booted straight up into Panther, without an issue. I shut it down and try again without the drive connected. We're back to square one. I've tried zapping PRAM, didn't help one iota. I'm at a loss...what could be causing this to happen? The hard drive, a WD 80GB is set to Master, which it should be. (when I had the Goldstar connected the Goldstar was set to slave)
Anyone have any ideas? thanks in advance
The internal 24x notebook CD-ROM drive, well, lets just say its seen better days, and has trouble booting off CDs. Therefore, I had this great idea to use one of my many spare desktop IDE CD-ROM drives, and daisy-chain it off the iMac's primary IDE bus. Found my 8x Goldstar (LG) drive, which I've used in the past to boot the iMac, that did the job and I soon found myself installing Panther. After about an hour or so, the installation had completed without an issue, and my iMac was running Panther rather nicely. So after that, I decided to put the iMac back together the way God intended. Turn the machine on and I get a blinking question mark. I put in an OS 9 CD and made sure that the correct partition had been set as the startup disk (yes, I did make a partition within the first 8GB, which I installed Panther on). The iMac is back together, so that means it has its original CD-ROM drive, which as we know has trouble booting off CDs. So I pulled it apart, and hooked the Goldstar back up. I pressed the power switch, and all on its own accord, it booted straight up into Panther, without an issue. I shut it down and try again without the drive connected. We're back to square one. I've tried zapping PRAM, didn't help one iota. I'm at a loss...what could be causing this to happen? The hard drive, a WD 80GB is set to Master, which it should be. (when I had the Goldstar connected the Goldstar was set to slave)
Anyone have any ideas? thanks in advance