I have OS X 10.2 installed on an 8 GB drive attached to the internal SCSI bus of my 8500. It has worked fine for a couple of weeks. I booted in and out of it to do some troubleshooting, and could not boot back into it. I think this may have been caused by either Norton Utilities 7 or Disk Warrior 1.1 fixing it. (Happened to me after doing that with 10.1). Fine.
Startup Disk CP saw the OS X system in 9, I'd select it, but it would never boot up, just revert to one of the many OS 8/9 systems I have on various disks. I tried using Conflict Catcher 9 to select it as a boot disk at start up (the feature I upgraded for) but the OS X system was greyed out. Fine. I booted to the OS 9.1 system on the same disk (my Classic system), and followed a previous suggestion to debless all the system folders by removing the Finder, to force it to use the OS X system. Still no OS X booting, just the flashing question mark. Fine. Tried to boot from a CD, but no bootable CD I tried will be recognized by the computer. Zapped the PRAM several times, after both a warm boot and a cold boot. Nothing happens. Now I'm stuck on a flashing question mark with no way to boot my computer. Not fine! Anyone have any suggestions how to get my 8500 back on line, and how to prevent OS X from becoming "unblessed" in the future? Thanks. -- _______________________ Phil Lefebvre Chicago, IL -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
