[X4U] G3 in endless loop of inaction

[Russell McGaha]

If it is a Rev 1 B&W; they are notorious for having boot trouble  
after running OS X [especially after a G4 upgrade].  When this  
happens to the one I've been 'blessed' with [has happened several  
times]; what I find works is: [may take several repetitions] zap PRAM  
[three bongs], test, hard reset, test, remove second HD if present  
[check for proper jumpers], test, re-seat all ram and PCI cards,  
test, ... lather, rinse, repeat in vary combinations till  
success. :)   NOT for the impatient.
On Jun 30, 2007, at 6:32 PM, Linda wrote:

> On 6/30/07 6:18 AM, Jonnythan wrote:
>
>> There was definitely a Classic OS 9 folder on the G3 because my  
>> friend used
>> Classic quite a lot, but I'm not sure if this can be used as a  
>> start-up OS 9
>> system - I assumed this was the source of the problem.
>
> The blue-and-white G3s could indeed boot into OS 9.
>
> Did your friend remove all the fonts from the Fonts folder in the OS 9
> System Folder when s/he was running OS X on the Mac? Many people do  
> that to
> avoid font conflicts with OS X fonts, since the OS 9 fonts folder  
> is "read"
> and those fonts are active in OS X (but NOT vice versa -- no OS  
> X .dfonts
> are available to OS 9).
>
> If the fonts were removed from that location, the Mac cannot start  
> up from
> that system folder.
>
> Do you have an external FW disk that you can boot from? And another  
> computer
> from which you can install a bootable copy of the OS? Then, even if  
> you
> can't choose a new startup disk, the computer should methodically  
> test all
> the attached disks looking for a bootable System folder until it  
> finds one
> -- it only throws up the ? icon when it can't find a bootable System
> anywhere.
>
>
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