Hi Beth, Your user has drag copied a System Folder from either an Apple or third-party bootable CD. This minimal System Folder on most if not all bootable CDs is not suitable for booting a hard disk, probably by design (intentional).
Ward Oldham on 9/18/2002 12:20 PM, Beth Ernst at bernst at fastline.com wrote: > I haven't had the opportunity to work with X much. Can someone help me out? > > I believe that the machine in question has two OS 9 system folders on it - one > 9.0 and one 9.2. In addition the hard drive has been partitioned and has OS X > installed. The end user was going to switch back to OS 9 and selected it as > the start up system. When his machine booted however he received the following > message: > > "The system software on the startup disk only functions on the original media, > not if copied to another drive." > > This is a co-worker's home machine so I can't tell you much about the set up. > Anyone have any ideas what could be going on here? > > Thanks! > Beth > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
