On Feb 8, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Gene Henley wrote:
I have a Quicksilver G4 with Tiger.
I installed OS 9.2.1.
On the same drive/partition as Tiger?
I can boot into OS 9.2.1 if I hold the C key down.
The C key boots from the optical disc drive. Did you forget to remove
the disc from the drive, and you're booting the 9.2.1 installer CD?
But if I try to boot into my OSX,
How do you "try" to boot OS X? Methods might including holding the X
key, or the Option key, or selecting the OS X system in Startup Disk?
The screen says "The system software on the startup disk only
functions on the original media,not if copied to another drive.
I've got a lot of experience with Macs and I've never heard of this
error message.
Could I have somwhow messed up my OSX preferences? If I did,How do
I get back to OS X to find out?
You can always zap the PRAM by holding the Cmd-Opt-P-R keys for
several chimes. You can reset the NVRAM by holding the Cmd-Opt-O-F
keys and at the Open Firmware prompt type the commands:
set-defaults<Return>
reset-all<Return>
Where <Return> means hit the Return key. The response should be "ok"
to the 1st command, and a restart to the 2nd command. Use the Option
key to select between different bootable systems such as OS X or MacOS
9.x. If you can't boot from a HD System, you'll need to boot the OS X
installer CD/DVD and run Disk Utility>Repair Disk from the Installer
menu.
If you're having problems booting OS X you can hold the Shift key at
startup for a Safe Boot which will only load the minimal Apple
extensions, but more importantly will trash & rebuild the System cache
files. Once booted in Safe Boot you can restart normally.
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