OS9 Boot problems

Zimbop

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I'm having problems booting into OS9 on a Dual 1ghz MD running OS 9.21 and OS 10.3 dual boot.

When I went to start work this morning OS 9.21 had hard crashed and I did a force restart. It loaded up, ran it disk check/repair thing which took about 10 minutes and then attempted to boot into the OS 9.21.

The desktop loaded OK but I had the spinning cursor and the words "You system didn't close down properly ... blah blah ... ATM is checking the fonts blah blah" and it checked ... and checked ... and checked.

OK force restarted after 45 mins as it didn't look if ATM was ever going to get there, rebooted, this time "Quickeys doesn't have enough memory to load the universal keyset" and the spinning disk again.

OK force restart into Norton SystemWorks and run NDD, not completed yet but in the meantime I'm writing this to ask - how the hell do I turn off ATM before startup!

Also any other tips for booting up / repairing to save me some time today, lost a few hours already.

All help greatly appreciated!
 
When you reboot your mac into OS 9, hold down the shift key, that will disable all extensions. Then you can go in and disable ATM.
 
Or you can hold down the space bar at start up which will bring up Extension Manager. From there you can disable the ATM extension.
 
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