Dual booting and Internet Connect

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tonyl

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A bit cheeky really - 2 questions in 1 post; but do any of you clever people out there know the answers?

(a) Despite being told that dual booting is possible, my Mac always hangs if Option is held down on boot-up. G4 Mac (AGP Graphics, recently upgraded to 1.42GHz with Sonnet processor card), 1.75Gb RAM. 3 hard disks - 20Gb for work back-up (no System folder), and a 200Gb split into:

(i) 40Gb running OS 9.2.2
(ii) 160Gb running OS 10.3.3

If I want to work on either system I have to reboot. Is this a Firmware problem?

(b) Despite having "Connect automatically when needed" checked in the Preferences for PPP, I cannot launch a browser (IE by default) and then get Internet Connect to dial. I always have to connect first, THEN launch the browser. (OS9.2.2 will dial automatically when IE is launched.) Modem is Alcatel Speedtouch USB for ADSL.

OK, so perhaps OSX is not meant to work this way, and it is not really a sweat to do it in this order (7 or 8 seconds at most). Perhaps it treats networks generally in a different way, but this is not what I expected of the "marvellous" OSX.

Anybody got any clues on these?

Thanks in advance – tonyl
 
Guessing that you have added a PCI ATA drive adapter card also, as the 200 GB drive won't be fully utilized by the internal IDE bus. You have 2 booting volumes on one drive, and none on the other drive. The hang at the Option boot, may be due to a firmware problem on your drive adapter card. Panther changed the rules somewhat, for how volumes mount, and your drive card may need an update, if one exists.

On your connection problem, my preference has always been to connect first, then start the software (mail, browser, whatever). 'Dial when needed' should work, but in my experience times out too frequently. Connecting first - takes care of that.
 
Thanks for that DeltaMac.

You are correct of course. There was the addition of a PCI drive adapter card (although my supplier seemed unaware of the 160Gb limit on drives at first). Not sure where he got the card from, but I doubt if a later version is available (although I will enquire).

It's not a great hardship to launch IC first, then the browser. Seems like everyone has that problem then!

Thanks for your trouble.

tonyl
 
Just a point, the limitation of Drive size is 128 GB, not 160 GB. This limitation is not there, if the drive bus, (or drive adapter card) supports ATA-6 protocol. (or ATA 100/133 is the alternate designation, I think)
 
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