Holding down the "C" key on startup does not take you to a startup disk screen, it only forces the machine to attempt to boot from the CD-ROM drive. I think you meant to say hold down the option key, which does take you to a screen where you can choose the boot device. Too bad the Beige G3 does not support the option on boot trick.
My machine has one disk, the original 4 Gig. It is not partitioned. So even if I could hold down the option key and choose a boot device, it would not help because the option trick only lets you choose a device, not a system folder on a device. In my situation the only thing that can choose between booting into 9 and X is a startup disk control panel. I really need to get a second large drive. On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 06:47 PM, Ron Ward wrote: > When starting up, you should be able to hold down the "c" key on the > keyboard and that should take you into the startup disc screen. Simply > select OS X hard drive and it should start up for you. Sometimes when > resetting the PRAM, it will throw the startup disc off and cause it to > start > up from another disc or hard drive. Do you have dual hard drives on > your > Mac? Is your single disc partitioned? If so, the PRAM reset is > causing it > to go into OS 9. Simply restart while holding the "C" key down and > that > should display the start up screen and then select OS X as your OS of > choice. Hopefully that will take care of the problem. I have the same > problem on mine, and I have two hard drives. Everytime I reset the > PRAM, it > automatically goes into the the other disk. If I'm in OS X it goes to > OS > 9.2.2. If I'm in 9.2.2 it goes into OS X. I have no idea why, but I > make a > quick correct by doing the above and it fixes it quickly until the > next PRAM > reset. > > Hope this helps. > > Ron Ward > G-List Nanny > Austin, TX > > > -- > G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives > | > -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! > | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
