[G4] CLASSIC WON'T START

[Joe Ellis]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Blokland" <jim at blokland.com>
To: "Power Macintosh G4 List" <G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [G4] CLASSIC WON'T START


>
> On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 11:53  AM, Wilkin, Wayne (Mass) wrote:
>
> > After you upgraded to 10.2.4 did you do an fsck and repair privs?
> >
> >> 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.
>
> Yes, I did repair privileges, but not an fsck.  And I forgot to
> mention, this problem hasn't just been exclusive to 10.2.4 -- seems to
> have been like this since about 10.1.5.  And I've tried the boot into
> OS 9 (which works fine) and then switch startup disks back to OSX, but
> that made no difference.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.  Hope I can resolve this.
> --
> JIM BLOKLAND
Do you have more than one OS 9 System folder? If so open the OS 9 preference
pane there should be a provision there to point classic at the folder you
want to use.

Joe Ellis