On Sunday 21 March 2004 07:15 am, Richard Starr wrote: > --- You wrote: > > Or when in OX 9, open the Startup Disk Control Panel, select your OS X > volume, and hit the Restart button. > --- end of quote --- > This won't work in 9 on a Beige or older machine, sadly, and probably has > caused more frustration and confusion to those of us who have struggled to > get X working on older machines. > > XPostFacto is a good solution and the only one if you are running Panther. > If you are in Jaguar, you can use System Disk 2.6.2, available somewhere on > the Apple site. Run this program, choose your X system, then restart. > Your machine will always boot to X unless you hold down the option key, in > which case you go to your most recent 9 system.
Just for everyone's general information, I did manage to get my beige G3 to work the way that Wilton said and without XPostFacto. I think the key is to make sure you install the OS 9 drivers when setting up the partitions for OSX. After I went back and reinstalled OSX (for the 3rd time), I made sure that the OS 9 drivers were installed. After doing that, I can now boot into OSX, go to the startup disk selection under System Preferences and select the second partition of my HD which contains OS 9 and hit restart. It will then start the computer in OS 9. Once there I can go to the Startup Disk under the Control Panels and select the first partition of my HD which contains OSX and hit restart, and before you know it I'm in OSX! Since getting that done last night I have been working on installing YDL to my last partition, but it's not going so well. It hangs every time I get to the place where I should select my CDROM as the media source. Any of you YDL'ers out there had this problem? -- Just a message from Doug... -------------------------------------------- http://users.adelphia.net/~slugg0/index.html -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
