I'm playing around with my Quadra 650 with the 601 PPC card (Apple-branded). MacOS 8.0 installed just fine, but the resulting installation wouldn't boot.
My boot volume is a 4GB image on a ZuluSCSI. The machine is otherwise stock apart from the PPC card and a RAM upgrade. But all I got was a blinking question mark. I used Drive Setup off the install CD to partition the drive.
On a hunch, I repartitioned the 4GB image into two 2GB partitions. After doing that and reinstalling, it booted just fine.
This is MacOS 8.0, so it's still HFS Standard, not HFS Extended/HFS+. I do know there are some limitations on what volume sizes 68K Macs support, but I had hoped the PPC Upgrade card, which has its own ROM, wouldn't have such limitations. Alas..
My boot volume is a 4GB image on a ZuluSCSI. The machine is otherwise stock apart from the PPC card and a RAM upgrade. But all I got was a blinking question mark. I used Drive Setup off the install CD to partition the drive.
On a hunch, I repartitioned the 4GB image into two 2GB partitions. After doing that and reinstalling, it booted just fine.
This is MacOS 8.0, so it's still HFS Standard, not HFS Extended/HFS+. I do know there are some limitations on what volume sizes 68K Macs support, but I had hoped the PPC Upgrade card, which has its own ROM, wouldn't have such limitations. Alas..
