Wilton H. Shaw wrote: > Hello, > > I have a PowerMac 8500, using OS 9.1. > Last year I installed OS 10.1 on a 2 GB external drive, and it worked > fine. I recently installed it on a 9 GB external drive. It installed OK, but > everytime I try to open in OS 10.1, I get a black screen with lines and > lines of white letters and numbers. I have to wait until they all finish > scrolling by before the Apple shows up, and the system starts to work.
You're booting in verbose mode. Go back into 9.2, fire up XPostFacto and uncheck Verbose Mode from the menu (I forget which one). Then it'll bott up ionto the gray apple, for just about as long...doing vernose mode boooting doesn't significantly change the boot time afaik. I prefer booting in that fashion; I can see what's going on. Then again, I'm an old Unix hand, I can make sense of most of what is flying by on console during boot. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
