THANK YOU KRIS!!! <Hold the SHIFT key at startup to disable the extensions and it should complete the startup hopefully?>
Yes, that started me up (although it was weird not seeing the "Welcome to Mac OS, Extensions Off" notice), I got into OS 9 OK that way. The G4's eject button didn't work in getting it to spit out the CD but I was able to change the startup back to Tiger, and in Tiger, the eject button works -- so I got the CD out. So now I can go ahead with dc's "nuke and pave" reinstall of OS 9 on that drive. My backups are maintained really well, there's only a couple checks I need to make first before wiping the 20 GB HD and doing a REALLY CLEAN OS 9 installation. <If your G4 has the current firmware you should be able to use the Option key to select whatever bootable device you wish at startup.> This Option-Restart method always did work for me, until the recent issues. Maybe after I clean up that HD I'll be able to do it again. :-) Thank you so much! ~Yersinia. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
