On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Joe Laffey wrote:

> Ever since I installed a second NetBSD drive (external at SCSI ID 4) on my
> Q700 I have had troubles booting in MacOS. To boot the system I have to
> turn off this drive (ID4). The internal drive (ID0) is also only NetBSD
> partitions. I actually boot off of a Syquest drive (ID5).
> 
> It was my understanding that MacOS looks for s drive with a system folder
> first at 0, then 6,5,4,3,2,1 in that order. However, if I leave the ID4
> NetBSD drive turned on at startup I get a dead Mac icon (sadMac).
> 
> Any ideas? I'd love to be able to reboot remotely if I had to. Luckily
> NetBSD runs so well that I have never had a kernel panic or any other need
> to reboot other than to reconfigure networking.

I thought that technically it booted off of the drive set with the Startup
Disk control panel, then went out to the other drives. If ID 4 were the
one which was set, then it would first look there, falling back to the
others when ID 4 failed.

Try using the Startup Disk to explicitly set the Syquest as the startup
drive. It should then be examined before all the others.

Take care,

Bill