A couple of things come to mind. First, is your HDD formatted as HFS+ aka 'Mac OS Extended' in the Get Info box for the HD. The other thing, is that try booting with extensions off after first installing 9.1 then turn OFF Virtual Memory. I had similar problems until I did this.
>I just had a hellacious weekend trying to load 9.1. I have a >300/180 with a Sonnet G3/400/1mb L2 Cache, an ATA 66 card running a >40GB HD, the original 2G HD, plus an old SCSI 160mb HD. I loaded >9.1 on the 40G drive, restarted, and the 'puter froze after getting >most of the way through boot-up. I then, using the CD as the >startup disk, moved everything off my 2G drive, reformatted that >and tried a clean install of 9.1. I got the same result, although >twice it let me start running the setup program before it froze. I >was finally able to delete 9.1 from the 40 G driver and get my >backup copy of 8.1 back on that drive, so all is not lost, but I >can't figure out why 9.1 doesn't seem to work. It seems to work fine >when I use the CD as the startup disk. Any suggestions? I am at my >wits end... > >Stan -- -- Mr. PopMan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Does anybody want to play a game of pinball?" Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply be idle. Jim Stovall-The Ultimate Gift -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:starmax@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:starmax-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:starmax-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
