[X4U] G3 in endless loop of inaction

[Jonnythan]

Hello everybody,

Sorry about the vagueness of this question, but this is all the information
I have.

My friend has a really old blue G3 running OS X (don't know what flavour)
and Classic. She decided to restart in OS9, and chose the Classic folder to
start up from with the StartUp Disk preference pane.

The result was the flashing question mark on startup.

When holding the the alt-key on startup you don't get the option to choose a
startup folder.

The G3 refuses to start from a CD when holding down the c-key on startup,
and won't mount as an external firewire disk when firewire-connected to an
iMac and started up with the t-key held down.

So the question is can anyone think of a way out of this scenario to get the
G3 to start up in OS X again?

Thanks ever so,


Best,

Jonnythan.


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