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>From: "b e n w e l l s | headwerkx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Vintage Macs)
>Subject: Happy Mac won't start up MacOS
>Date: Fri, Jun 21, 2002, 11:56 AM
>
> My apologies if everyone's getting sick of hearing about my freakin'
> SE/30...
>
> Seems Green Jade crashed while I was transferring a few files over while my
> g/f was also using it (it now lives in the living room), and now it plain
> refuses to load up System software of any kind.
>
> It DOES display a Happy Mac icon on startup. And then does nothing. Reboot
> with some form of start up floppy and it gets a little way in... a System 6
> disk flashes the "Welcome to Macintosh" graphic infinitely, System 7 boot
> disks made from the images on Gamba's site usually freeze as the GUI comes
> up; mouse works, but no menus.
>
> If you wait a LONG time - like 5 mins - the "Can't Find Startup Volume" icon
> appears if its not feed a boot up disk (ie. just trying to startup from HD).
>
> Figuring first that it was some kind of hardware problem with the recently
> added RAM and NIC I quickly removed them in turn and still nothing.
>
> Am I left with no option other than to rip the HD out and try mounting on my
> 8500?
>
> Cheers, Ben.
No. I've had that dilemma, too. I have a IIci I use to go after files on the
'Net. It makes perfect copies.
I insist your floppy drive may be defective. And the hard drive MAY be
damaged.
If you get a good copy of System 6.0.8 Disk Tools, and your floppy drive
DOES work, you'll be able to boot the Mac. More work then proceeds while
you, having just proven your floppy drive works, get a disk tools disk of
your system version on the hard drive, and boot your SE/30 with it. Then
open the System folder on the hard drive and see if your system and finder
are there, with no generic icons, ready to go.
Pull each out of the system folder, then replace them and try to boot again.
With the hard drive. If all else fails, you must reinstall, CLEAN INSTALL,
the system software.
To keep from pulling out your hair, use an LC or LC II as an external hard
drive, in conjunction with the cable from an external CD ROM or External
hard drive and that drive loaded with your system software.
Jeff
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