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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe Laffey
> LAFFEY Computer Imaging
> St. Louis, MO
> http://www.laffeycomputer.com
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I'd think a sad Mac indicates a termination or bad driver problem, but I'm not
that techie type. What does happen when you turn on (and mount) the external
hd after having booted in MacOS?

Regards, Ulrich