no os9 all of a sudden

[Dave Giorgio]

Thanks for the responses. Ya know what fixed it? Zapping the pram. I have 
never seen corrupted pram (like this) in action and this was an extreme 
case, but that was the issue.

Best,
Dave



> >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
>If you can still boot off the OS X CD, at the first install menu, run
>DiskUtility. After that, I'd try DiskWarrior.
>Chris
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