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I have a Beige G3 machine. Can I install Gentoo Linux/PPC on a second IDE hard drive?

April 26, 2017Beige g3 Gentoo IDE install linux Machine ppc

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I have a Beige G3 machine. Can I install Gentoo Linux/PPC on a second IDE hard drive?

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Early Beige G3 machines (those with a “Rev 1” motherboard with an ATI RageII+ chip) do not support slave IDE drives. To use a second hard drive with this machine, you would have to attach it to the internal or external SCSI connector or install a PCI IDE card. Later G3 machines do not have this limitation. See http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/IDE/index.html for more information. I have a revision A or B iMac. I’ve replaced the hard drive with a larger one and now I can’t boot into anything! There is an 8GB limit for the root partition on these machines. Ensure that your root partition is less than 8GB and it should work as expected. This also applies to OS X and later versions of OS 9.