>From: Dana Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PowerBooks)
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PowerBooks)
>Subject: Re: ? on G3 Pismo
>Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 01:08:27 +0000
>
>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
>
>
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