cant install os 9 in a beige g3

jamespi

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hi, i have a beige g3 tower, single 256mb dimm, rev a mobo, 266mhz

i bought it with no hd, so i got a western digital caviar 22500 2.3Gb ide drive, plugged it into the ide ribbon with the ide cd rom, ran the os 9 installer, initialised the drive into two hfs+ partitions, everythings fine.

but once the install is finished, and i reboot, it just says "no bootable hfs partition" over and over and over

i found out recently rev a mobo's cant have slave ide devices - i checked the hd and cdrom, and they were both set to master! how they ever worked together to run the installer i'll never know! so anyway i pulled the cdrom off the ide ribbon, thereby leaving the hd as the single master drive on the ide ribbon.

still no good.

what's the problem?
 
okay! i pressed the cuda reset button on the mobo! problem solved (plus the cd and hd work together still, both set as master on the same ide channel!! how jammy is that!
 
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