Woont boot OS X

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sean8102

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Hello agian. I finally got a Mac agian from ebay and it came in today. I installed OS 10.3 I then updated to 10.3.9 and everything was working great. I decided to install OS 9 on a second hard drive so I got a Hard drive shut down the powermac installed it in there and just to be safe i removed the hard drive that had os 10.3.9 on it. I then put my OS 9 CD in booted from it and installed. Everything was great and I was downloading the os 9.1. and 9.2.2 updates. Those finished downloading but i did not install them. My sister needed to get on the computer for mapquest, so i shut down removed the hard drive with OS 9 and put the OS 10.3.9 one in there. I powerd on and all I got the picture of the folder with the flashing ? on it. I tryed shutting down and resesiting the PRAM with that button on the MLB. Still got the same thing. So then i tryed unplugging the computer and taking the MLB battery out for a few mins, still wouldnt boot. I used my OS 10 install disc and disk utility and it sees the OS 10.3 install and I verifyed and repaired premessions, and verifyed the disc. It said all was good, but still no boot. Any advice before I have to destroy everything on the Hard drive.

specs

Powermac G4
Dual 450 G4
256 MB ram (512 tommorow)
Rage 128 Pro (will upgrade to Radeon 7500 end of week)
 
Just let it sit there at the flashing folder for up to 5 minutes and it should find the hard drive and boot from it. You can then log in and reset the Startup Disk preference in the System Preferences so that it won't do that again.

Alternatively, you can boot from the 10.3 install CD/DVD and in the "Installer" or "Utilities" menu you can set the startup disk.
 
i tryed that too. The mac OS 10 hard drive wont show. Iam just gonna reinstall. Didnt have much on their anyways
 
You know you can have OS 9 and OS X in the same partition. OS X will then use that OS 9 System Folder forthe Classic environment. Plus, you can still boot from one OS to the other without a hitch.

Also, make sure you install the firmware update for that Mac before installing OS X. This firmware update must be done from OS 9 as it will not run in OS X nore will it run from the Classic environment.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117

Good luck. :)
 
ok well some of the newer macs dont boot up OS 9 (if that is indeed the problem) so i don't know how to help ya there; but if it's an older mac that can boot up OS 9 try installing OS 9 on a hard drive first, then install OS X on the same hard drive, and just have OS X recognize OS 9 as classic, then you should be able to boot up fine between either one
 
It obviously boots OS 9, so that's not the problem. I'd connect both harddrives, install OS 9 first on one drive, then install OS X on the other. Then you should be able to simply choose which OS to boot from in "Startup Volume" (Control Panels, System Preferences) or via holding down the Option key at startup.
 
I have one more quick question. When ever i boot my mac i seem to never get the boot up chime. I have made sure the volume is up all the way when i shut down, and my speakers are on and turned up. The computer runs fine but I just dont get why i dont get the boot up chime. I have 10.2 right now but iam leaving in a few mins to get 10.4, could it be some setting in the OS?
 
sean8102 said:
I have one more quick question. When ever i boot my mac i seem to never get the boot up chime. I have made sure the volume is up all the way when i shut down, and my speakers are on and turned up. The computer runs fine but I just dont get why i dont get the boot up chime. I have 10.2 right now but iam leaving in a few mins to get 10.4, could it be some setting in the OS?
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Just reset your PRAM and that chime will come back.
 
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