John Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone solve my OS 9 startup problem?
>
> My PowerBook will restart and begin loading OS 9.2. When the "smiling
> face/computer" icon loads the screen goes black, the startup chime is
> heard and it will proceed to load Aqua again.
Dear John,
I (and others) are well aware of this problem. I recently complained
to Apple Tech support about it, too.
It's to the point where if I've been running X (especially since
installing Jaguar) even briefly, I can't seem to get the Mac to boot
into OS 9.
I am running a Pismo with a gigabyte of RAM. I have my OS 9.2.2 system
folder on a separate partition from my 10.2.2 system.
This is the solution:
* Boot up in OS X.
* Go to "System Preferences" (click the icon in your dock)
* Click on "Startup Disk"
* Click your OS 9 Startup volume/folder to choose it. (Do not restart
yet!)
* Click on "Show All", and when the warning pops up asking if you are
sure you want to change your startup disk, click the change button.
* Click on "Classic" in the system preferences panel.
* Highlight the OS 9 system folder if it isn't already highlighted.
* Click on the "Advanced" tab of the classic panel.
* Click on "Rebuild Desktop" from the advanced pane.
* After the progress bar says your desktop on the classic volume is
rebuilt, you may close the System Preferences.
* Now restart your Mac. OS 9 should boot up as normal.
Note that holding down the "option" button when you hear the startup
chime will bring up a selection of volumes that you can boot from. If
you just followed the steps above, this is not necessary because you
have already chosen OS 9 as your startup volume.
Note that unfortunately if you regularly switch back and forth between
X and 9, you will run into the need to go thru this rebuild exercise
OFTEN. For me, it's simpler just to go ahead and rebuild while in X
before restarting, even if I think 9 might boot fine.
Finally, note that if you want to rebuild your desktop from within OS 9
(by holding down command-option near the end of the startup process
until prompted to rebuild) the desktop rebuild can go very slowly. I
find that when booting in 9, if I first disable extensions (hold down
the shift key immediately after hearing the startup chime), then hold
down command-option to rebuild desktop, it rebuilds much faster. (5
minutes versus 2 HOURS!) Then boot up again in 9 with your normal
extension set.
Hope this helps.
--Jim.
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