Stan-- I have virtually the same set-up except for a JoeCard G3 upgrade. And had a similar experience with installing 9.1. What worked for me was to do a clean install on a separate partition from the boot partition with OS 8.6. Then rebooted and rebuilt the desktops (depress Option & Command during boot-up) of all my partitions. Opened the Start-up Disk control panel and selected the new 9.1 boot partition. Rebooted and immediately depressed *continuously* the Option & Command & P & R keys to zap the pram until it had bonged *5 times*, and then released the keys to let the boot-up proceed. And 9.1 loaded successfully. Hope this works for you...
"Sneath, Stan" wrote: > I just had a hellacious weekend trying to load 9.1. I have a 300/180 with a Sonnet >G3/400/1mb L2 Cache, an ATA 66 card running a 40GB HD, the original 2G HD, plus an >old SCSI 160mb HD. I loaded 9.1 on the 40G drive, restarted, and the 'puter froze >after getting most of the way through boot-up. I then, using the CD as the startup >disk, moved everything off my 2G drive, reformatted that and tried a clean install >of 9.1. I got the same result, although twice it let me start running the setup >program before it froze. I was finally able to delete 9.1 from the 40 G driver and >get my backup copy of 8.1 back on that drive, so all is not lost, but I can't figure >out why 9.1 doesn't seem to work. It seems to work fine when I use the CD as the >startup disk. Any suggestions? I am at my wits end... _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Ed Stewart, Colorado Rocky Mountains <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal website at: <http://www.skymtn.com/> Updated 8/27/02 -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:starmax@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:starmax-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:starmax-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
