[HM] System won't mount on iBook

Bob K itheshopper at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 16 08:20:19 PDT 2003


Try this:

Start up from the CD, and go to the Control Panels, select Start-up 
Disk, and make sure you select
the SystemFolder you installed on your Hard Disk.  Then restart.

Bob
On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 00:01 US/Eastern, Cyn wrote:

> iBook 600 running OS 9.2.1
>
> Last night I started up an iBook and initialized it with original CD 
> utilities. Zeroed all data and re-installed 9.2.1 all went fine and I 
> shut down the iBook. I went to start it up tonight and got the 
> flashing question mark... obviously looking for a system folder. I 
> zapped pram, no luck. It will start from the CD but no other system 
> mounts. I looked to initialize it again to start over and I can't 
> because it can't find a system to initialize or find one to re-install 
> software on. Where the heck is the system I put on it last night?
> -- 
>
> Cyn
>
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