on 5/10/03 5:28 PM, Eric Volker at ebv1 at charter.net wrote: > I'm hoping someone here has run into this problem before. When I try to > boot off of OS 9... you did not mentioned your machine type, anyway most problems in OS9 are solver Zapping the PRAM and some times by rebuilding your desktop give it a try... first Zap, and see if it works fine another trick may be to use a start up disc (OS9) boot from it and do nothing, then restart your machine booting from OS9 internal drive not from the CD that will fix the startup preferences file...