OS 9.2 Won't Boot

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by mudfrog

If when having to manually power the machine down when starting it back up again I think if you press the SHIFT key just after you press the power key to turn it on it will select what you want to boot up to i.e. Hardrive OSX/OS9, CD-ROM drive, External Hardrive(if one is connected) etc...etc...

Have you tried repairing permissions on the machine. It could of got a bit screwy.

Cheers,
Rich

mcthunda seems to be having issues with booting into OS 9. OS X doesn't seem to be the issue.

And Shift will get you to the Mac Finder with Extensions Disabled in OS 9 or "Safe Boot" in OS X. Holding down Option will bring up the boot selection.

mcthunda, try booting with Extensions Disabled as mentioned above and report back.

[mudfrog]

Originally Posted by nixgeek

mcthunda seems to be having issues with booting into OS 9. OS X doesn't seem to be the issue.

And Shift will get you to the Mac Finder with Extensions Disabled in OS 9 or "Safe Boot" in OS X. Holding down Option will bring up the boot selection.

mcthunda, try booting with Extensions Disabled as mentioned above and report back.

Yeah thats it the Option key.
The reason I said it was because he said that he was afraid of trying to boot into os9 as he said he has to reinstall everytime to get osx back. And was giving him the option of which os/device to boot from to avoid reinstalling everytime.

Rich

[nixgeek]

Right but the only reason he thought he had to reinstall everything was because it would take OS 9 a long time before it reached the desktop, which could be attributed to a conflicting extension or control panel. Plus, he forced the machine to power down by holding the power button which made things worse.

[mudfrog]

Yeah, OS9 does take a while to load to be honest. But he did say that he used to 'jump' between both os's without any issues.
Yeah it could be extension or control panel issues.
Disk first aid sounds like its in order. Permissions issue perhaps? But I did hear that repairing permissions on an OS9 folder could cause more problems than solve. But I've never had problems with doing so.

By the way my main machine is a PC but have a mac as a second machine

Rich

[mcthunda]

cheers for the help anyway.. I still can't load it up.. It was a mac with a question mark in the middle... and I left it over night in the end to see if it would boot. No luck.. Then I thought to myself why would i need os 9.2 any way? Classic still works... How do I delete 9.2 off my computer and will it interupt with anything if I do??

thanks
jamie

[nixgeek]

All you need to do is delete the "System Folder" for Mac OS 9 (not to be confused with the "System" folder that's for Mac OS X!). After that, you could try reinstalling Mac OS 9 and then set the Classic pane in System Preferences to use that new "System Folder."

[MacDoug]

Deleting the OS 9 "System Folder" won't mess up anything in OS X except for Classic, which probably boots from that same folder. So be aware that what nixgeek says is true - if you delete that System Folder, you may have to reinstall OS 9 on that machine to have a working Classic environment.

[Natobasso]

Make sure you have 9.2.2 installed. It's the one that works best with OS X...Classic won't work without OS 9 installed, will it?