OK Here's the REAL problem: My cat stepped on the power switch of my surge while I was online. When I tried to reboot, the gray apple came up, the starting OS X and the blue stripes came up, then just a blue screen. I had to reboot with the CD, choose the drive with OS X and restart. Still the blue screen. Then I installed OS 10.4 on another hard drive and it works EXCEPT I have to go thru the starting from the CD routine, choose the right drive, and restart. If I restart, I get the blinking question mark, forcing me to go thru the start from CD routine again. I have used disk utility, chose the start up disk in system preferences and locked it. Basically the drive i choose won't stay set, but will stay set when i choose from the CD. Whew!!
--- Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:17 AM, David Dierlam wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a disk utility that will > partition > > an ATA drive? I know OS 9 had a nice one but > haven't > > found one for Tiger. I made the stupid mistake of > > loading Tiger onto a 120G hard drive and now I > have > > trouble on start ups. I thought one of y'all > mentioned > > about having to install OS 10.x.x on a big hard > drive > > that it had to have an 8G partition allocated for > > installation of OS 10. > > The 8GB limit ONLY applies to drives on the ATA bus > of Beige G3's and > the very first iMac. > > If you could install Tiger on the machine, you don't > have one of > those systems. > > Also the installer won't let you choose a drive > that's greater than > 8GB to install on if you have a applicable system. > > So whatever your problems are with it, they're not > at ALL related to > the drive being 120 Gb in size, and partitioning is > going to do you > no good at all. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > This is the sig who says 'Ni!' > > > -- > 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/> > > iPod Accessories for Less > at 1-800-iPOD.COM > Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal > www.1800ipod.com > -- 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/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
