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Authored by: Anonymous on Apr 29, '01 02:18:41PM

I had this problem, but didn't have to do all this reinstall business.

First, have you installed Startup Disk v. 9.2 (available on the Apple website)? I think it fixes this problem...

Either way, the problem is that the OS 9 startup disk control panel does something that prevents the OS 9 system folder from being recognized by classic. (I suspect some funky "blessing" issues.) If you open the "classic" control pane, you'll see that the OS 9 system folder you wish to use is greyed out. How to "re-bless"? Simple -- run the "startup disk" control pane. Wait until it finishes the scan, then select the OS9 system folder as the boot folder... this will fix whatever blessing problems happened.
Now you can go into the classic control pane and select that folder. Finally, go back into the startup disk pane and reselect your OS X disk...

But I think all these problems can be averted by simply installing the new "Startup Disk" control panel.

(Also, I believe that the information given regarding having to reboot into OS 9 and ferreting all the hidden OS X files out is pretty spurious. The OS X installer is good at finding broken files and replacing them -- so every reinstall is a "clean" reinstall... no need to manually clean out the system for something so simple as reinstalling to fix a glitch in classic. [More serious problems might merit wiping all traces of OS X off the disk, but I've never seen such a problem...]).

Zach

PS. "Blessing" refers to the process by which the OS "blesses" a folder to be the boot folder, so that the ROM can recognize that folder as the one to start the system from.



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