Bondi Insanity

#1 Sat, 1 Mar 2008 - 22:20 68kMLA

I have installed Mac OS 8.5 on the HD.

It boots from any CD fine.

It can format,browse and run apps off the HD

BUT IT WONT BOOT FROM IT!

Any help?

#2 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 - 02:16 68kMLA

Apologies if this is a stupid question, but you didn't just copy the OS8.5 installation from the CD to the HD, right? I mean, you actually went through the install process using the installer on the OS8.5 CD?

Also - and again, apologies if I'm missing something here - you don't say which Mac you're talking about. That would help too.

Best,

Matt

#3 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 - 03:06 68kMLA

Have you tried zapping the PRAM to see if that fixes anything? Assuming the installation was done correctly, of course....

#4 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 - 03:26 68kMLA

Is the system folder blessed?

#5 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 - 03:45 68kMLA

do u have the rom file in the system folder?

#6 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 - 03:56 68kMLA

See wood_e. I spent some frustrating hours this weekend just past with an installation of OS 9.2.2 onto a 9650/G3/500MHz. Two drives with the identical installation (the second a copy of the first one's model installation of 9.1/9.2.1/9.2.2), one with an existing installation of 9.1, and a fourth drive with no system, for storage. Start Manager got as far as Happy Mac on each drive with a System, and then stuck. Even booting from an OS 9-containing CD (OS 9 Install, or DiskWarrior) was inordinately slow, but ultimately successful. Having exhausted all other rational possibilities with no improvement, while booted from an OS 9 CD I dragged Finder to top folder level from each System Folder in turn, closed the System Folder, and then dropped Finder back onto the closed System Folder. Voilà!

In umpty-ump years I've seldom had to rebless System Folders, but it paid off in spades in this instance.

de

#7 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 - 14:20 68kMLA

Yes. I installed correctly.

Yes, Mac OS ROM is in the System Folder.

I will try to rebless it.

Thanks.

#8 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 - 15:00 68kMLA

I tired reblessing. No.

So what do I do now? It refuses to boot from any Hard Disk.

But boots fine from the CD.

:?:

Also, all the files are on the HD.

#9 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 - 15:23 68kMLA

Well, I even reset the CUDA.

Nothing.

#10 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 - 17:11 68kMLA

I had a problem last week where I couldn't even see the hard drive when I installed xubuntu 7.04 and Mac OS 9.2 on my iMac G3. I fixed the problem by running Drive Setup and clicking "Update driver" or something in the menu.

#11 Mon, 3 Mar 2008 - 21:32 68kMLA

I tried all the steps. NOTHING.

Please help

#12 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 - 15:16 68kMLA

I'd suggest trying a different HD.

#13 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 - 00:59 68kMLA

Did you swap the HD?

Is it set to master?

#14 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 - 02:03 68kMLA

yes and yes

I got a new mobo-fixed

#15 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 - 02:42 68kMLA

did you make sure the HD is set as "Master" ??