SCSI HD doesn't boot

[andreadandrea]

Hi everybody,

I have an issue with my Quadra 700 + MacOs 8.1: my second HD automounts and works fine, but doesn't boot.

I attached a second HD (MAB3045SC, 4.5GB, scsi-3, 68 pin) to the scsi bus with an adapter cable, assigning id 2 to it.

I formatted and partitioned it with FWB HDT 1.8, marking it as automount and bootable.

The HD works fine and automounts, but no way boots.

I chose it as startup HD by the control panel, but doesn't boot (the first HD will boot instead).

I left it alone in the scsi bus (with id 2), but doesn't boot (? mac icon).

I tried some startup key sequences to change the startup device, but all the same.

What could you suggest me to do?

I'll appreciate also emails to andreadandrea at tele2 dot it

Kind regards,

Andrea

 

[coius]

is the hard drive that is not booting formatted as HFS+? (HFS-Extended)? The old 68k Macs won't boot from HFS+ volumes, they need to be HFS Standard

 

[Olympiaman1010]

I think I am running into this same issue. I just formatted my 4.5gb SCSI HDD and tried to partition it to two 2gb partitions. The same problem, set disk one to be the bootable and automount but it didn't help. I am not to familiar with the old OS partition software and have had to reformat several times after changing things and making the disk unmountable. It will read 2gb and that's it. If someone can tell me how to get this solved I will gladly try again. Normally I am pretty good with troubleshooting things like this, but not this time.

I don't know how to format in HFS+ and checked to see, it is formatted in HFS. I gave up on this and just left it as a 2gb format wasting 2.5 gigs. I don't know what else to do.