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 machine. At least that have been the case before.
Also, why would an original retail OS 9.2.x or 9.1 disc supposed to
install on everything from that time period not work? In the past this
have always worked.
The other discs: Techtool, Disc Warrior, Norton, all originals, suitable
for the early G4 as well as later doesn't work with the G4 at hand. They
have booted about everything I tried them with since.
So I'm pretty sure the reason lies elsewhere. I think I may have some kind of hardware problem, so I'm looking into that.
Suggestions on how to diagnose the OS 9 boot process are welcome.
Mikael, I'll suggest some obvious ones, even though I'm sure you've tried 'em.
1) Maybe the drive is about to go bad (if it's an LG) and it just is coincidence that the CDs won't boot.
2) Are Mac OS 9 drivers installed on your hard drive? I know that's almost automatic for most people, but I do recall that that was a choice when I put Jaguar on my hard drive.
3) Maybe the CDs all have very slight (marginal) flaws on them, and the one Pismo's drive is pickier than the others?
My $0.02 (or equivalent in other currencies),
Jim Rohde
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