On Jun 25, 2011, at 9:14 AM, skyking...@verizon.net wrote:
When I try to boot back into OS 9 (which is on my other drive) after the OS X installation hangs up following the first disc, it hangs at the happy Mac icon. The only way for me to get back to OS 9 is to boot from the OS 9 CD or a Norton Utilities CD.
It should boot any valid OS 9 System by holding the "Option" key at boot time.
Believe me, I'd much rather run Tiger, and that is the goal. But my Tiger install disc is an upgrade version which requires the computer to already have Panther on it.
You may convert the upgrade DVD into a full install DVD: <http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/12/12791/> Read the comments for Tiger info.
I'm just completely baffled and frustrated by this problem. I installed and ran Tiger (10.4.11) on this computer, which has a Sonnett G4 500 MHz processor, for months -- years -- without any issues until recently. In fact, it was the most reliable computer I've ever owned. I simply cannot understand why it has gone bad. And now, following this last attempt, my USB card has quit working, even with all the USB extensions loading.
Beige are flakey and difficult. I once had one I had to strip down to NOTHING except a optical drive and RAM to get a CD to boot. Then I added back a HD and finally installed. VERY frustrating.
I'd recommend remembering to install an L2 cache enabler such as Sonnet Cache as quickly as possible because no L2 will make the boot process unbearably slow. I feel your frustration, I always felt like the Beige was a house of cards. Now my house of cards is a hackintosh, and it's nearly a frustrating sometimes, but the speed is way better than any Beige.
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