On Friday, February 10, 2005, Mikael=20Bystr=F6m wrote:
This is unlikely, but thanks for the suggestion. All the discs I tried
boots up other machines of the very same model. I don't think I would
get
the grey screen if it had been the wrong disc. It would say the disc
won't work with this
Any ideas for why an older G4, like a 400 or 500 wouldn't boot into OS 9?
OS X (10.3.7) works both from several discs and several CDs. But no known
Bootable OS 9 CDs, like repair CDs or OS 9 installation CDs work. Same
discs boot other similar machines.
All I get is the dreadful grey screen.
I
On 10/02/05 10:09, Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any ideas for why an older G4, like a 400 or 500 wouldn't boot into OS 9?
OS X (10.3.7) works both from several discs and several CDs. But no known
Bootable OS 9 CDs, like repair CDs or OS 9 installation CDs work. Same
discs boot
Laurent Daudelin said:
I would risk to say that you probably haven't the right version of OS 9 to
boot from on this machine. There has been quite a few different versions of
the installation CDs for OS 9 along with a few updates. What you need to
make sure you have is the full install retail CD,
I was wondering if you had access to an external CD drive you could
plug into the G4. I once had a similar issue with an unrelated machine
years ago and I couldn't boot the OS disk from the Mac's internal
drive. I resorted to using an external drive which seemed to work fine.
Just a thought.
