Strange problem. Can anyone replicate it?

martijnvandijk

martijnvandijk

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I am curious if someone is capable of replicating my problem. I did the following

After starting up in OSX (10.1.5) and immediately pressing Apple-S, my iMac starts up in Unix. I did fsck -y until my computer appears to be OK.
Then I type "exit" and OSX starts.

Now comes the tricky part: Now when I, in the same session, select OS 9.2.2 as my startup system and press Restart, the computer won't start up anymore and I will have to reinstall OS X (HD won't mount anymore). I think I have been able to replicate this problem twice.

Am I the only one running into this, or is it a general problem?
Thanks,

Martijn
 
interesting problem,


but we would have to be bit of a sucker to try that unless we wanted to reinstall!!

no way im going through that just to see if it breaks my mac!!


good luck finding a ginnie pig!!!
 
I remember reading somewhere that if you format your hard drives with OS X's disk utiltity program, that the drivers required to mount the hard drive under OS 9 aren't installed -- however, if you format your hard drive with the disk utility from OS 9, then both OS 9 and OS X can mount the hard drive.

I also remember reading that this was solved with the release of 10.1, but I could be mistaken -- could your problem be that you formatted your hard drive with OS X's disk utility, and when you try to boot back into OS 9 that OS 9 can't mount the hard drive, and therefore cannot boot?

It's a long shot, but it's worth investigating.
 
It is a nasty Norton problem. It appears that I had to delete a file called DTDaemon, a filesaver document, causing the problem (recognised by Symantec). As for now, the problem appears to be over indeed. Thanks for your comments!

Martijn
 
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