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Hi

I have a macintosh plus (4 Mb) and would like it to boot from an external hard drive.

I don't succeed however to do that. What am I doing wrong?

This is the setup:

setup.JPG


(please note the battery is missing)

The back of my plus:

achterzijdeplus.JPG


The back of the drive:

achterzijdedrive.JPG


The drive:

drive.JPG


(Have i terminated everything correctly?)

Look at this movie of the bootup first.

http://webs.hogent.be/~054169dv/mac/boot.mpg

As you can see, i boot up the drive first, and then i boot up my macintosh plus. However it keeps asking for a system disk.

So i insert a system disk.

Booting up gives me the following dekstop:

desktop.JPG


(note: the hard drive show up)

About Finder shows the following:

aboutfinderdisk.JPG


The contents of my hard drive:

blesseddrive.JPG


(Note: the system folder is blessed)

The information dialog of my hard drive:

driveinfo.JPG


The contents of the system folder on my hard drive:

drivelayout.JPG


I get the following error when i try to open something on my floppy disk:

filestartupdisk.JPG


And when i try to open up finder on my hard drive:

finderstartdrive.JPG


I can switch to the finder on my hard drive by opening finder with opt+command

finderstrarteddrive.JPG


But when i try to open a file then i get the following:

soundstartdrive.JPG


Anyone knows what's the problem?

mp.ls