Thanks for the tip.. I just redid my OS 9 drive with a Universal
install, but the iMac still hangs showing the faces icon on top of the
folder. I'm somewhat at a loss. Resetting the PRAM doesn't change
anything. It definitely appears that something happened to the machine, but
I don't understand because it only occurred after my friend was messing
around with something in the OS X Preferences, and then when the machine
went to reboot, it would always hang on the Apple screen with the thing
spinning forever.
-Chris
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From: "Philip Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: Fixing a 233 Bondi...
On Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 03:13 AM, Chris Riedl wrote:
I tried replacing the drive with one that has OS 9 and the flash
utilities on it, but the machine powers on to the screen with the Mac
faces (doesn't flash with the ?) and just sits there. Any idea what
might be causing that? I used the CUDA, tried zapping PRAM, to no avail.
When I removed the drive from my iMac to my Gigabit G4 tower to install
OS9, I chose "custom install" from the installer, and told it to install a
'universal' install which should allow startup on *any* Mac that can run
OS9, and it worked fine in the iMac. It likely installs a lot of stuff
that isn't needed, eating up some disk space, but moving the drive from
the G4 to the iMac worked without a hitch.
---Alex
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