On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 07:10:06PM -0500, Chris Tribo wrote:
> 
> > My boot device is ide1/@0:0 . This Mac has a relatively new
> > HD (80 GB) which is connected to ide1. Is this perhaps a problem?
> > Can the system not boot from the second ide port?
> 
> It can boot from ide0 and ide1. ide0 is primary master (usually the HD)
> and ide1 is secondary master (usually the CDROM). It cannot boot from a
> slave ID device in OpenFirmware, but MacOS can boot slave devices if you
> have a new enough ROM DIMM. Generally if you have a Rage Pro video chip it
> can, if it's Rage IIc+DVD it can't without upgrading the DIMM.
> 

I solved the problem my by swapping HD and DVD ide ports.
The HD ist now ide0/@0:0, the DVD ide1/@0:0.
With this setting the system boots fine from the HD.
Even auto-boot? = true works.

Greetings
Robert