startup disk

Had problems with kernel panic. Repaired with DiskWarrior. After that, installed Nortons Anitvirus, rebooted, another kernel panic screen. Wiped the partition and installed OS X and all the updates. Now it works fine, but the startup disk preference won't show any of my 9.x partitions to choose...

Hi, I work at a university and we are attempting to set up an OSX disk image to distribute on our mac machines. The plan is to have users log in as non-admins. This however creates a problem when users need to use an OS9 only app as they cannot change the startup disk prefs without being an...

Is there a key combination that I can hold at startup to switch disks? You see, I can't run Cubasis under OS X (I bought it today, though I knew it probably wouldn't run under classic) and I need to boot to 9. But I hate having to switch disks then reboot. Thanks.

I'm sorry if this has been answered before, but I haven't found it on the site... I would like to create a new Mac OS X startup CD... is it possible ? Basically, the startup disk that came with my disk repair utility is out of date and I would like to create a new one. Of course, since I...

I though my G4 is dead but not. I finally make my G4 work again by used reset red button on the logic board. It work fine for now. I reformatted hard drive and when I'm done with 9 and I tried to install MacOS X amd wont let me install because I have 10.0.3 while I already install 9.2.2. So I...

I have a PowerBook G3 (FireWire) and an external FireWire hard drive. I have Mac OS X 10.1 installed on the internal hard drive and I'd like to have 9.2.1 on my FW drive, but Mac OS X refuses to recognize it as a Classic drive. It won't even acknowledge the fact that I chose the FW drive to be...

Hi, Ok, I am rapidly getting up to speed with 10.1 after a couple of years at 8.* I discovered something that I want to share, and also, to get feedback on. Like previous versions of Mac OS, you can change the icons of files/disks etc, by doing cmd-I, and the cmd-c and cmd-v. Great...

I got the startup disk problem fixed, thank you... now an even bigger problem! I bought a FireWire CD Drive... 10.1 upgrade installer wants to boot off of the drive... guess what?! firewire cannot be booted off of... SO NOW WHAT? is there some kind of software that would let me install 10.1? Or...

Since both my brother and my father use OS X and Classic, they both have the need to toggle between startup disks (instead of running it in X). Is there a way that I can set it so that they can also change the startup disks - without either giving them my admin password or making them admins?

I currently have a script as follows: set theFolder to "Macintosh HD:System Folder:Preferences:" Now not everyone has their startup disk titled "Macintosh HD" does anyone know how to do it so that no matter what the name of the startup disk is, it will set "theFolder" to the path to...

My startup disk does not stay set on OSX, rather it often reverts back to Mac OS 9.1 when I go into the startup disk control panel, even after having set it on OS X and clicked the padlock to lock it there. Anyone else noticed this or know how to stop it?

When I recently ran OS 9.0.4. I absentmindedly switched back to my 9.1 drive using 9.0.4's startup disk utility. Upon restart, I found OS X loading rather than 9.1 which is what I expected. Now, neither my 9.1 or my 9.0.4 drives are visible, even in ASP. Is it possible that using the old...

Ok. I've been having problems with OS X crashing. I assume it to be a problem with quartz, because gibberish gets drawn onto the screen. Sometimes the mouse still works as a cursor here, sometimes it's a vertical line or a mutating one-pixel point or something. Odd. The other thing is, the...

Hey guys. I tried installing OSX tonight and got an error message, after clicking the "Restart" button on the installer. The message says "An error occured. Startup disk was unable to select the install CD as the Startup disk (-2)" How do I get the computer to recognize the CD as the...

I installed Mac OS X on my Cube 450MHz 488MB RAM and 20 GB HD. The install went well and I started using the system. After a few hours of idle, the keyboard stops responding but everything else works. When I reboot, I get a flashing question mark. Did a reinstall and made sure that it boots...

I have OS X (release version) and OS 9.1 on my Titanium G4; but when I try to run Classic or any Classic applications, I'm immediately given an error: "This startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model. Use the latest installer to update this disk for this model." Suggestions? Scott

Using Apple Software Restore, I just installed OS X 4k33 on its own partition of my G4's original hard drive. However, the Starup Disk Control Panel in OS 9.1 will not allow me to select 4K33. It is greyed out. Only 9.1 and 4k29 (which I have kept on another partition and which starts up fine...

Using Apple Software Restore, I just installed OS X 4k33 on its own partition of my G4's original hard drive. However, the Starup Disk Control Panel in OS 9.1 will not allow me to select 4K33. It is greyed out. Only 9.1 and 4k29 (which I have kept on another partition and which starts up fine...

Okay, I have a stock G4-400 w/ 128 RAM and 20g HD that I ordered November 28. I installed a few things like Stuffit Deluxe 5.5, Photoshop 6, Quake 3 Demo, etc. THen I installed the OS X Public Beta. Worked great right after installing. I poked around checking out the coolness, then I shut...

help! I booted up into OS X and then went to the system controls window to set my OS preference back to 9. when i clicked on the Startup Disk icon, the machine locked up completely. I rebooted and tried again several time, but it did the same thing each time. I rebooted with Extensions...