On Feb 8, 11:20 am, "Dan A. Currie" <danc...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > Hello All and Dan, > > Here is what I have - a G4 MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM / NETSCAPE > 9.0.0.6, 1 -120 GB (OS10.5), 1 - 200 GB (OS10.4), 1- 120GB and 1 - 6GB > (OS9.2) HDD's in that order. > > When I go to Startup Disk in System Preferences all 3 OS's are there on > their respective HDs but when I select OS9.2 and then click RESTART the > G4 begins a normal restart, looks for OS9.2 ... CAN NOT FIND IT ... and > restarts in OS10.5. >
AND On Feb 8, 12:06 pm, "Dan A. Currie" <danc...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > > Up until just over a year ago this was a MAC OS9.2 machine, then I > upgraded to 10.4 -11 and now to 10.5.5. > > When I try to boot up OS9.2 going through SP, it tries very hard to find > OS9.2 - the old file folder is there flashing from the Picasso to ? mark > about 5 or 6 times then it "gives up" and goes to 10.5. > > Perhaps the 6GB is TOO far down the tree? I asked about that before ... > I thought. You've tried many suggestions including re-blessing the OS 9 System Folder. Reviewing the above, you have OS 9.2 loaded on two HDDs, "1- 120GB and 1 - 6GB (OS9.2) HDD's in that order." And you cannot boot into either of the OS 9.2 drives? Sometime about a year ago you upgraded from OS 9.2 to OS X Tiger. Perhaps more detail on the history may help. With the Tiger upgrade, did you retain OS 9.2 on a drive with no problems for a while? Did you go without 9.2 for a while and more recently loaded it on both its drives? If so, did you initialize the two OS 9.2 drives using OS X Disk Utility and perhaps did not check the box for loading the OS 9 drivers? Do you have the problem whether trying to restart in OS 9.2 from either of your Tiger and Leopard drives? Before I happily sold my G4 Quicksilver 733 with two internal drives, I had OS X 10.3.9 Panther and OS 9.2.2 on the "main" drive. The other drive had three volumes, one for OS 9.2.2, one for OS X 10.3.2 (test), and a third for scratch space. I could not boot into OS 9.2.2 via Startup Disk in System Preferences while restarting from OS X on the main drive. But I could boot OS 9.2.2 from the test OS X on the secondary drive. If you had both OS X and OS 9 booting fine for a while, what changes occurred in the system environment shortly before you hit the OS 9.2 boot problem? Like maybe the last version update to OS 10.5.5? Hope you have better luck with your "Honey-dos from She who must be Obeyed." Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
