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Re: [slightly OT] Boot problems with OS 9.0.4

At 11:21 PM -0800 1/20/01, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, strobe anarkhos wrote:
>
>> >
>> >Then, the most surprising thing happened.... I plugged in the firewire
>> >hard drive into my OS X machine and the bloody thing mounted! I didn't
>> >think OS X had firewire support.... :-)
>>
>> It has no firewire booting support.
>
>Ah. Makes sense.
>
>Well, I went as far as removing all traces of the both the old OS 9
>installation and the just-installed copy as well. Reinstalled. No dice.
>I'm starting to run out of ideas....


Zapped PRAM yet?

You have a FireWire bronze keyboard PowerBook, so it's a NewWorld machine. (See how cleverly I avoided code names for the machine, and then busted out with a internal name for what type of hardware it is? Sigh.)

That means that Mac OS 9 and X boot almost exactly the same way, at least until you see the happy Mac. OpenFirmware looks for a 'tbxi' file in a blessed System Folder. For Mac OS 9, that's the "Mac OS ROM" file. For X, it's the "BootX" file.

If you Zap PRAM, turn the machine off, then boot a Mac OS 9 CD, and run System Disk, select your Mac OS 9 system folder, and it boots fine... then I suspect that X is making some persistent change to NVRAM that Mac OS 9 is choking on.

If after that, it still won't boot, then I'd suspect that it's a change to disk causing the problem.

Let's start with that.

-pmb

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 >Re: [slightly OT] Boot problems with OS 9.0.4 (From: strobe anarkhos <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [slightly OT] Boot problems with OS 9.0.4 (From: "David A. Gatwood" <email@hidden>)



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