Hello G-Listers: I don't know what I did in fact, but I dl'd Ryan Rempel's* XPostFacto, ran it from an OS9 partition with the installer for OSX inside the CD-Rom - again the installer refused to recognize the first partition (Todd Stauffer's book on X says you can do a re-install as the best way of replacing corrupt files and not erase your HDD) that has OSX. But what happenned next - I rebooted to an external SCSI that has a back-up OSX (that by the way never refused to see the recalcitrant OSX internal partition, nor its lesser neighbour with OS9) - and chose the internal partition as the new start-up disk and got something I never saw before - a black and white Apple logo (like on the towers) and a twirling cursor also B&W. So it booted! Now I am reluctant to shut the computer off. Thanks to all, esp. Richard Reed - yes, XPostFacto does work with Beige (are you listening, Jim Arnott?) and the explanations and web-page help are very useful. Donations, anyone? If you have the dough, this guy's* worth it. I will test further - I still think the IDE busses are flaky - how to troubleshoot them - any advice?. The cables are original and look good. The internal HDD tests fine with Disk Utility and a commercial product. Cheers George
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