Hi! I hope you can help me.... please?!
I have a QuickSilver G3 running OS9.2.2, which came with a dual-boot start-up disc for OS9 and OSX. I have always only ever used the OS9 start-up disc until now... until yesterday when I decided to switch start-up discs, and now cannot reboot at all.
To change it I went into the Apple Menu, sent into 'start-up disc' and selected OSX, then restarted. But the machine will not restart. It makes the first 'gong' sound and then goes into either an open firmware page or the falshing ? folder icon.
I have tried rebooting from a chosen start-up disc by holding the control 'alt' key. When I do, both the OSX harddrive icon and start-up CD icon display, but when I click on the arrow it just rescans and comes up with the same thing, it doesn't move forward out of that page.
It won't let me reboot from CD holding 'c' so I have tried the 'shift,command,control+delete' combination but this doesn't work either. It just takes me to either the flashing folder icon or a grey screen with a 50mm size apple in the middle, nothing more.
Interestingly, it would let me boot from the silver 'hardware test' CD (why is this different?) but the tests were all passed no problems found.
I have tried a few different open firmware scripts including the 3 line reset-nvram, set-defaults, reset-all, and also a long line of setenv mac-boot but all these just take me back to the flashing ? folder.
I have also reset the P-RAM letting it rechime 5 times, but this just took me to kernel panic panel.
I think I need to either:
force a way to launch from instal disc so I can reinstal software and get back to OS9, or
find some open firmware script (?) that will make it reboot from the OS9 startup disc
I hope this offers you enough information on what has happened and what I have already tried, and would GREATLY appreciate any advice or assistance you can offer me.
Many many thanks
Lucy
I have a QuickSilver G3 running OS9.2.2, which came with a dual-boot start-up disc for OS9 and OSX. I have always only ever used the OS9 start-up disc until now... until yesterday when I decided to switch start-up discs, and now cannot reboot at all.
To change it I went into the Apple Menu, sent into 'start-up disc' and selected OSX, then restarted. But the machine will not restart. It makes the first 'gong' sound and then goes into either an open firmware page or the falshing ? folder icon.
I have tried rebooting from a chosen start-up disc by holding the control 'alt' key. When I do, both the OSX harddrive icon and start-up CD icon display, but when I click on the arrow it just rescans and comes up with the same thing, it doesn't move forward out of that page.
It won't let me reboot from CD holding 'c' so I have tried the 'shift,command,control+delete' combination but this doesn't work either. It just takes me to either the flashing folder icon or a grey screen with a 50mm size apple in the middle, nothing more.
Interestingly, it would let me boot from the silver 'hardware test' CD (why is this different?) but the tests were all passed no problems found.
I have tried a few different open firmware scripts including the 3 line reset-nvram, set-defaults, reset-all, and also a long line of setenv mac-boot but all these just take me back to the flashing ? folder.
I have also reset the P-RAM letting it rechime 5 times, but this just took me to kernel panic panel.
I think I need to either:
force a way to launch from instal disc so I can reinstal software and get back to OS9, or
find some open firmware script (?) that will make it reboot from the OS9 startup disc
I hope this offers you enough information on what has happened and what I have already tried, and would GREATLY appreciate any advice or assistance you can offer me.
Many many thanks
Lucy