I got the happy Mac on boot, right after the hard drive spun up (happy!) -- but only for a split-second. It quickly jumped into the black screen of death & the sick Mac, complete with Twilight Zone music. Been a while since I've seen that. Nearly nostalgia.
I'm pretty sure this is an OS 9.2 thing (that doesn't work on non-OS X Macs, right?), but perhaps it's a hardware issue (1400 != iBook 500 hardware, of course)? I'd hate to lose the info on the hard drive, and would prefer not to buy a Firewire enclosure to get everything off.
Luckily there are some partitions on the hd I could blast and install OS 8.1 (another CD of that (well, 8.0) laying around), so I'll try booting to floppy with the new hd installed next, if nobody knows of a reason I shouldn't. Wonder if the older Mac OS won't understand the new hd's partitioning scheme. ??
Thanks,
Ruffin Bailey
(And before anyone goes too crazy, I do have a spare copy of OS X 10.0 laying around, which has a copy of the OS 9 installation on it, so I'm pretty confident I'm legal (got it for an old iMac that I sold sans OS X disc). So no pirate stories with the hd swap!)
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