IIci boots twice

[campbellashe]

To all,

Wondering what the issue might be with a Iici that boots to the happy Mac icon, but then reboots going through the sequence again but working successfully the second time. I have the cache card, blue scsi running 7.5.5 and the Rominator II installed. Full recap and otherwise seems to be working fine once the above sequence has occurred. I do note that occasionally the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen icon is colored and other times it is not.

It is not a big problem, but just want to understand how to trouble shoot if it is a problem....

 

[David Cook]

Do you have a PRAM battery installed? If not, then the IIci is setting itself to 24-bit memory mode initially. And then the System software is setting it to 32-bit and rebooting. Just an educated guess.

 

[Boctor]

Yeah, I was going to ask more or less the same, if you had any INITs or SSW that'd be setting it to 32-bit mode. I always use Force32 on a IIci with the same ROM and no battery installed, and it has to restart once during the first cold startup, since the addressing mode is changed.

 

[campbellashe]

PRAM battery is working. On boot, the initial dialog from Rominator displays"32-bit". I'm running 7.5.5, don't have MODE32 or other INITs that I am aware of. I'll try again with a cold boot; looks like on restart now that the computer has been on for a while it is no longer booting twice. Very inconsistent, but perhaps it is related to that first boot after being off for a while.

 

[campbellashe]

Here is the boot sequence. This is occurring after I have had the computer on for a while...so not related to cold boot.

 

[croissantking]

I sometimes see the same thing when I have multiple partitions set up on a drive. I find it annoying too.

 

[campbellashe]

So you think the behavior is related to the Bluescsi with multiple .hda files / "partitions" ? Is it related to the size or numbering sequence?

 

[croissantking]

So you think the behavior is related to the Bluescsi with multiple .hda files / "partitions" ? Is it related to the size or numbering sequence?

I've noticed it more with an OG hard drive that's partitioned and has multiple System Folders across the partitions. On 68k, Startup Disk Control Panel can't distinguish between different partitions on the same SCSI ID, which causes issues. In this scenario I use System Picker, but still run into this 'booting twice' issue sometimes.

The BlueSCSI's HDA files have different SCSI IDs which should avoid this problem – unless you have multiple System Folders on the same HDA?

 

[campbellashe]

No just one system but three .hda files. It is annoying but not terrible. Just don’t know why.