to answer my own question:
the OS X beta documentation clearly states that the beta cannot be installed on a slave ATA drive. fair enough.
what it does not say is that the installation cd-rom will not boot off of a slave cd-rom drive either. at least, this was my experience.
i had...
I can't boot the OS X beta installer cd on my beige G3. booting with "C" held down only gets me the blinking question mark and then a white screen with the words "no bootable HFS partition" repeating across the screen.
the only way out of this is to force a reboot and zap my PRAM. the...
