Hi Yersinia; Never heard of the 'mouse & power button' = eject. What works for me is 'mouse button' ONLY --- while booting. of course.
Chuck D. On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Yersinia wrote: > > Hi again Listers, > > :::::blush::::: Ummmm...let's hope my Powerbook 5300 comes to my > rescue > again (it's the only way I have right now to send or receive > email...) -- > > My experimenting with Charles's suggestion of removing certain > extensions (and some obviously erroneous ideas of my own) to fix my > "G4 > won't boot and run in OS 9" problem has now resulted in a "loss" of > OS X, > too. I know I can get it back if I boot from my Tiger DVD and reset > the > startup disk, but I had a CD in it which I now cannot remove. The last > time this happened, the suggestion from this list to "hold down the > mouse > and the power button on the Mac at the same time" worked, so I > tried it > again this time. > > It's not working now, and since my OS 9 is wrecked (the clean > install I'd > done this weekend is obviously messed up), I have no way to go into > the > Apple Menu to change back to OS X as my startup. > > I know, I know, I know, why don't I just give up on OS 9 (except to > run > Classic)?.....because it would make my life a whole lot easier if for > this one task, if I COULD run on it still. My "do it on the iBook and > move the file back to the G4 with the flash drive" workaround has > gotten > awful tiresome. It also irks the hell out of me that a machine whose > capabilities specifically include dual booting/running BOTH OS 9 > and OS X > -- and did it wonderfully for two years -- just isn't doing it > anymore. > > I also thought that holding down the mouse and the G4's power button > simultaneously to make it spit out a CD was a G4 thing (regardless of > OS), but is it OS X specific? > > Current situation which I must resolve ASAP (this is what I get for > "experimenting") -- > > Having tried to boot from a copy of my "original" OS 9 system folder > which I'd put on the OS X HD for safekeeping just prior to doing > the OS 9 > reinstall Sat night (and which my G4 had also been running Classic > Mode > from since then when I was in OS X), the Mac will ONLY boot in OS > 9, and > it boots, but as soon as the menu items and desktop icons appear, it > locks up/freezes. I nerve-pinch shutdown, but even when I'm holding > down > the mouse key and power button at the same time, OS 9 just boots (and > freezes) again -- and the G4 does not spit out the CD it's got so I > can > put my Tiger DVD in. > > There's no holes for paperclip eject. > > ...thanks everyone! > > ~Yersinia. > > (wow, this 5300 keyboard is so much better than the iBook's!)..... > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
