Here is the rundown of what I am working on: G3/400 B&W that has a G4/450 processor upgrade in it, 768MB RAM, Apple CD-ROM, ATI graphics card, USB2 PCI card, original 12 GB IDE drive as master, 40GB IDE drive as slave (nothing on it yet).
About two weeks ago I reformatted the 12GB drive and partitioned it. I installed Panther on one partition and OS 9.2 on the other. After a week or so of installing my various programs I decided to run the basic maintenance programs before making a backup copy of the system. I ran Disk Utility, Repair Permissions, and Disk Warrior 3 on the 10.3.2 partition and Disk First Aid and Disk Warrior on the 9.2 partitions. I lost the ability to boot from OS 9 into OSX, but I had no idea why, or what I had done wrong.
After a number of hours trying to correct the problem I gave up and started over with a reformatted drive and a clean install. After installing OS 9.2 and 10.3, and doing the various Apple updates I decided to try booting into 9 and then back into 10. When OS 9 started up, it rebuilt the desktop on the OS 9 partition, then the desktop on OS 10. I though that was strange, but let it run. The OS 9 system rebuilding the OS 10 desktop "broke" my ability to boot into 10 from 9.
Last night I started over for a third time. All I had on the machine was O 9 and 10.3, and the various updates to 10.3. When I booted into 9, it immediately started rebuilding the desktop on the OS 10 partition. The second or two it took to click on the "Stop" button was enough to screw the OS 10 desktop.
Nothing seems to fix this "broken" desktop issue. I have tried fsck, Disk Utility, repair Permissions, rebuilding the OS 10.3 desktop from inside ten's system preferences and Disk Warrior 3. The scary part is that OS 9 launches into rebuilding 10's desktop before I can stop it.
I can not find anything on Apple's web site about this, and I have not seen it mentioned on any of the lists.
Anyone have any insight into this puzzle? Or, any suggestions as to how to stop the Desktop Rebuild from running on its own.
Thanks! Nancy
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