G'day Matthew
Read this, it might help....
http://forums.macnn.com/archive/index.php/t-199310.html
or Google for ... B&W Apple startup manager
Regards
Santa
On 24/01/2006, at 10:34 AM, Matthew W. Schmeer wrote:
Hey all:
A regular list lurker here popping up with a weird one. My B&W G3
won't
boot to the startup manager when I hold down the option key when
the machine
boots.
Machine is running OS 9.2.2 with 512MB RAM. Four total drives: two
internal
hard drives on the motherboard IDE bus, two on a Sonnet Tempo ATA/
66 PCI
card. Machine will boot from any drive when the drive is selected
in the
Startup Disk control panel.
To be clear, I hold down the option key and power on the computer. No
startup manager appears; the machine boots to the hard drive
selected in the
startup disk panel.
I did, at one point, attempt to install Ubuntu linux on a hard drive
attached to the Tempo ATA card. The install went smoothly, but the
machine
refused to boot, so I did a low-level reformat of the drive and did
a clean
install of OS 9.2.2.
I have reset the PRAM, booted to OF to reset the nvram, pulled the
battery
and let it sit, pulled out the RAM sticks and let the machine rest
overnight, etc. But still no startup manager when I hold down the
option
key during the boot process. I use a Apple Extended Keyboard II ADB
keyboard regularly, but it wont' work with an Apple-branded USB
keyboard,
either.
Any suggestions? I'm just looking for a quick way to boot to a
separate
hard drive when I turn on the machine--I have some edutainment
titles for my
kids which don't like all the extras in my regular boot volume's
System
Folder.
Thanks in advance,
--
Matthew W. Schmeer
<mwschmeer(at)yahoo.com>
B&W G3 400Mhz
Mac OS 9.2.2
512 MB RAM
Epson 740i
StyleWriter II via Belkin Serial Adapter
USB Iomega Zip 100
D-Link 7-port USB Hub
BusLink USB Floppy
External Firewire LiteOn 52x24x52x CD-RW
Internal Samsung CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive
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