So first thing this morning I tried step 1 above. And discovered a huge mistake I made upon setting this machine up that thankfully did not lead to Bad Things.
I unplugged a cable leading to the installed PCI ATA card, and I unplugged my mistake. With the way that the SCSI cable was routed, I thought that the end near the bottom of the chassis was supposed to be plugged into the SCSI card and had gotten knocked loose during shipping. If I had paid better attention instead of letting my excitement rush me, I would have tracked the cable all the way around behind things to the SCSI port at the top of the motherboard near the PSU power connection on the board.
So, I unplugged the cables from the cards, thinking that I will see if I can get at least to the blinking question mark. To my surprise the thing made it to the Welcome to Mac screen that you get just before you hit a progress bar while the system begins starting. This was the point where I followed the cable. LoL. It stayed here for fifteen minutes or so. Thinking I was going to have more stuff to work through, I turned her off with the power button and then started her back up after waiting about fifteen minutes.
It booted fully to the desktop! So I now have one of my Grail computers completely up and running! I am more excited about this than I was getting my G3MT going!
So I have questions now though. I bought this machine to be a spare parts deal for the very first Genesis that I purchases awhile back. That machine I bought knowing that it did not boot. It made evil noises from the PSU so I figured I would actually just rob this machine of its PSU and any RAM or cards it had. But since I have a KNOWN GOOD Daystar... I am thinking it makes more sense to just pull the 4x 200MHz 604e processor card and put it into this machine. The question is, were there any differences in the motherboards on these? I *thought* they were all Daystar branded 9500 motherboards but there is so little info on these machines outside of their initial benchmarks and publicity information. I know Danamania did some work with one but went the Linux route and I know that Scutboy has one (I think this very same 132 x4 setup) but aside from these two people the only other person I know of who has used one extensively is the gentleman who runs XLR8YOURMAC.com and he is incredibly difficult to get ahold of (eg: I have never successfully done so).
So, Liberation Army... Thoughts on what I should do with this Genesis versus the first one?
