>I tried to boot back to 9.1 from 10.2.4. I held down the option key >and first chime it showed the 9.1 icon for a second and then gave a >second chime and automatically booted into 10.2.4 again. > >Same happened when I selected 9.1 folder form 10.2.4's Start Up Disk >utility and selected restart. > >Any ideas would be welcomed before I descend into the screen of death >syndrome. >
If you have another hard drive with 9.x (or even 8.x) that you can slap in there for a short time, internal or external, try it. I just got myself out of a Black Screen Of Death loop today (which wasn't getting cured by the usual battery/power cord removal and Cuda-pushing) by dropping another HD in, disconnecting power to the HD with 10.x, and restarting. Then plug the power back in on the 10.x drive and use SCSI Probe or whatever to mount it. Finally, set startup disk to the original drive, restart with Option key down. ymmv. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale Registry: http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/ Books/videos/software: http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/ -- 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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
