Greetings all, I have a question re: a G3 Pismo my student owns. Beautiful unit, but it's doing something odd. He kept complaining of an error message that wouldn't allow his Finder to boot up completely while trying to start up in OS 9.2. Having been newly bought via a successful eBay sale, I suggested a clean install of the os just to reduce possibile causes. So, we zeroed out the ATA HD, did a fresh install of OS 9, (seemed to work fine), and turned oround and added the 9.1 update, followed immediately by a 9.2 update (didn't bother to reboot inbetween the two updates). Upon initial boot up in OS 9.2, sure enough the same odd error message, something about an "OTLib" with an awfully long name (wished I'd written it down, but I was late for class) was missing and to check the owner's manual (not present) for info. The only button available to close the window was "restart" which we did, THEN from each boot from then on, just before mounting the boot HD, the unit would go into a loop (the HD icon would appear, then disappear, then appear, etc.) sevral times until the standard yellow "The Finder needs your attention" message would come up.
My thought at first: does the G3 Pismo need a firmware update to run OS 9.2 (or OS X for that matter) ? Any help appreciated. The unit inquestion has over 500mg of RAM if that is of any help. Thank you for putting up with the long post. Best regards, Dana -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
