I've had this happen before. Seems a bit silly, but what worked for me once before was selecting the OS9 system folder as my startup disk, booting into OS9, and then choosing OSX as my startup disk. Once I booted back into OSX, I was able to start Classic. Go figure. Jim On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 10:59 AM, Jim Blokland wrote: > Hi: > > Just re-installed 9.2.2 clean, and even though the Classic preference > pane says there is a valid system there, Classic won't start. It just > flips for a second as if it's going to go, then -- nothing. No error > message, just doesn't work. Tried all the possibilities in the > 'Advanced' pane too. No luck. > > Running 10.2.4 on a Dual 500. > > Any suggestions/similar experiences? > > Thanks in advance.