I've already tried that. It doesn't appear. You're not supposed to be able to boot from a USB drive (supposedly), but I did it on the 9.2.2 on the Bondi. The weird thing was that after I booted from the 9.2.2 on the USB drive, I went to Startup Disk to change back to the internal drive and even though I said to boot from the internal 9.2.2 drive, it still booted from USB (this was on my Bondi machine, not the one I'm having a problem with now). Kinda had me freakin' out.
Lonnie. On Sep 4, 8:38 pm, Charles Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:06 PM, lrbarrios wrote: > > > > > > > > > Well, I'm sure it's probably not THAT bad. There is a very long story > > behind all of this, but I'll spare you the details unless they become > > necessary. I'll just explain my problem, as I see it. > > > The abridged version... > > > iMac G3 (600Mhz Graphite, 256MB, Tiger) > > I copied a working 9.2.2 System folder from a Bondi to the working > > 10.4 hard drive of my Graphite. Everything looks fine. Went to > > 'Startup Disk' and tried to boot from the newly added 9.2.2. Now, all > > I get on power ON is a flashing folder. It alternates between a > > question mark and the 'Two Faces In One' icon. Holding down the > > Option key on power only shows my hard drive with the 'TFIO' icon > > super-imposed on it. When I click the right-arrow button to boot it, > > the Mac continuously alternates between that and the folder with a > > question mark. I've done the Option+Command+P+R to clear the PRAM. > > No change. It acts like it cleared it, but still doesn't make any > > difference. I don't have any install CD's yet (to boot from) and > > supposedly can't boot the original OS X backup from my USB drive. Any > > ideas? > > > Lonnie. > > Yeah!! > > Plug in the USB drive, boot holding down the 'Option Key' --- [be > patient] > > IF the partition on the USB drive shows up as a choice, try it. You > may be lucky --- But be aware, booting from USB is "slow", I.E more > patience. > > Chuck D.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
