I joined this group to find help with some startup issues.
I am running a platinum imac with a teeny tiny harddrive (10G) and 256 ram.
I couldn't boot to anything after a crash on system 9 (the old flashing question mark on the folder). I went through several fixes (some old, some new) that I found here. I even went out on a limb and followed the instructions for starting up with opt-apple-o-f. Still no luck.
Upon inserting both system 9 and osx installation disks and running disk utilities (disk first aid and driver setup) I decided to reformat the disk. There was no sign of my hard drive on either installation disk bootup. So I reformatted, reinstalled os9, then osx (jaguar).
After the first installation disk is completed, it tells me installation was successful and that after a 30 second countdown the computer will restart. It does this, but now I have discovered yet another new OSX startup symbol: Grey background, the large apple is up momentarily only to be replaced with the international "no" symbol. Nothing can be done at this point other than to restart from the OS9 disk, select OS9 as the startup disk and then I'm stuck in OS9 land with no fun. No nothing. Any ideas?
I am running a platinum imac with a teeny tiny harddrive (10G) and 256 ram.
I couldn't boot to anything after a crash on system 9 (the old flashing question mark on the folder). I went through several fixes (some old, some new) that I found here. I even went out on a limb and followed the instructions for starting up with opt-apple-o-f. Still no luck.
Upon inserting both system 9 and osx installation disks and running disk utilities (disk first aid and driver setup) I decided to reformat the disk. There was no sign of my hard drive on either installation disk bootup. So I reformatted, reinstalled os9, then osx (jaguar).
After the first installation disk is completed, it tells me installation was successful and that after a 30 second countdown the computer will restart. It does this, but now I have discovered yet another new OSX startup symbol: Grey background, the large apple is up momentarily only to be replaced with the international "no" symbol. Nothing can be done at this point other than to restart from the OS9 disk, select OS9 as the startup disk and then I'm stuck in OS9 land with no fun. No nothing. Any ideas?