Pismo OS9/Tiger dual-boot problem

[Mr. Ksoft]

I'm trying to get a dual-boot going between OS 9.2.2 and Tiger on my Pismo.

I have a 30GB hard drive in it, which is partitioned with 18GB for OS9 and 12GB for Tiger. OS 9 is installed fine. I put in the Tiger disc and installed it to the second partition, but when I reboot into it, I get the circle with a line through it when it tries to start. Verbose mode says it's still waiting for the root device. I tried resetting the NVRAM from Open Firmware, because Apple's site recommended it-- no dice. If I hold down option and use the selector I can still boot into OS 9 fine. Why can't it see the partition?

 

[kite210]

I'm not sure if the pismo had this issue, but I remember that certain Macs and Powerbooks require the OS X partition to be on the first 8GB of the hard drive, otherwise it wouldn't be bootable.

I only have a Wallstreet II so I wouldn't be able to test it, but you could try re-partitioning your drive with the OS X partition being in the first 8 GB (Try 7.8GB to insure that it boots), otherwise I wouldn't know.

 

[Mr. Ksoft]

Apparently that is not the case in Open Firmware/New World ROM based Macs. Either way, I first got this with the original hard drive (13GB) having OS X on it as one big partition-- it'd be possible that system files could pass the 8 GB barrier there and then it wouldn't work, so I can see that the Pismo isn't affected by it.

 

[coius]

I am pretty sure any macs with USB (except the bondi G3) and that includes the Lombard don't have the issues with OS X on bigger than 6GB Drives. Anything wallstreet/beige G3 and the like required to the partition to be less than 8GB Drives.

Oh, and that only applies to the internal IDE controller. SCSI, PCI SATA, PCI SCSI or PCI IDE cards need not apply to this theory.

I have installed OS X on a Beige G3 (overclocked to 433Mhz) on a SATA 80GB HDD on partitions over then 8 GB limit with no issue. It's just a limit of the internal IDE chipset that they used.

What surprises me is that this didn't apply to the Lombard, as I would have thought since it was a Beige G3 shoe-horned into a PowerBook case, same chipset, etc... with a NewWorld ROM, and USB tacked onto the USB bus.

Other than that, it was identical to the beige in almost every other way in design. (Hence the ATA-16MB/s IDE Bus as well)

Pismo was a complete overhaul of the system and was a completely new-world system. New chipset, AGP graphics, new FSB, USB built into the chipset, etc... It was a completely exempt from the exceptions the beige G3 series had to deal with with OS X.

So the Pismo was not included, but I seem to recall installing OS X onto my lombard with a 30GB HDD easily, no partitioning needed

 

[Mr. Ksoft]

Well, I reformatted the OS X partition and installed OS X again and it worked completely fine. Both OSes are running well. I have no idea what the problem was, but it works fine now!

 

[highlandcattle]

Does Wallstreets have this problem also with booting Server (the openstep variety). Because I installed it and it won't boot