I had the same problem before make sure that the 9.1 is the us version
on 3/31/02 11:24 PM, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Gang! > > Well, I finally screwed up the nerve to try the upgrade from 8.6 to 9.1. > I say "try" because, er, uh... > > The place where I bought the disks sent me two. One was a > virgin-looking, factory 9.04 disk. The other was a homemade burn with > the 9.1 upgrade on it. > > The 9.04 install went nearly perfectly. The 9.1 left me with the system > installed. But when I tried to boot from the ATA hard drive (via Tempo, > freshly zeroed out and clean-installed) on which I installed it, I > repeatedly got a message after the Happy Mac that went something like > this: > > "The Startup Disk for your model of Macintosh cannot start up with this > edition of the OS. Get the installer disk and try re-installing." Or > something a lot like that. > > I tried it twice, with the same result both times. I'm typing this from > 9.04, which seems to work just fine in all respects. > > Anybody have any acquaintance with this? Is this a "Wish I Were" gestalt > situation? Is this a common problem solved with some simple trick? And > what about Erica? > > --Tony > > S900 > Sonnet G3/allegedly 400 > Sonnet Tempo > Maxtor 15gb ATA hard drive > 540 mb physical RAM > UltRez card > > -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Processors, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
