no os9 all of a sudden

[Dave Giorgio]

Here is a kicker. I set up a new 1.25 os9 bootable machine with 3 
partitions with osx and os9 on partition one and os9 on partition 2.

So all was well until the other day the machine crashed after changing the 
start up disk from os10 to os 9 and restarting. Os 9 would not boot. All 
that would come up is a gray screen (as in the gray screen that comes up 
pre happy mac icon, though trying to restart several times got me farther, 
such as the desktop wallpaper, but never as far as the finder opening with 
the hardrives on the desktop).

The machine was able to boot os10 by holding down d at start up, but that 
stopped working once I tried to boot from the os9 on partition one (because 
d at startup starts from first partition and once I chose the os9 on that 
partition, it would not revert back to os 10 on that partition).

After starting up holding down option to choose the os to start up in, the 
only choices I got were two: os10 on partition one and an identical os10 on 
partition one. The machine is a newly purchased refurbed 1.25 os 9 bootable.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Thanks,
Dave



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