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elche
03-22-2003, 06:45 PM
I have an agp mac, 400 mhz, 1 gig. I replaced the dvd rom with a superdrive and have two hard drive. MY boot drive has Jag and OS9, but the os9 system folder I had renamed to previoussysfolder.
Everything was running perfectly, until yesterday when I tried booting into OS9. The computer restarted and left me with the old Mac icon with a smiley face and went no further.

No matter how many times I try restarting, pressing the s1 button, and so on I wind up in the same place. My keyboard is a logitech, control panel is in preferences and it was working fine.

If I press any key on my keyboard at startup, i get a black screen. PRAM won't zap. If I disconnect the startup drive and try booting from the superdrive, I just get the black screen.
I've tried holding down T, S, C, command S, Option S, Command V, plain old Option - nothing changes.
What do I do now? If I reset and start up again, I get the smiling mac.

mervTormel
03-22-2003, 06:57 PM
do you have an apple keyboard? if so, plug it in and boot holding the X key to get OSX to boot.

dang logitech keyboards can't send key-presses before their drivers load, i think.

elche
03-22-2003, 07:04 PM
I don't have an apple keyboard, so that may well be the problem. i will see if I can borrow one.
thanks

elche
03-22-2003, 10:13 PM
Borrowed a keyboard, got the option key to work. Wouldn't boot from my HD with the OS9 and wouldn't but from Jaguar CD, so I put in a 9.2 cd and it booted. then i changed my startup to the Jaguar folder and voila - I'm back in business.
Thanks