[rich82fox]

hi

a few beige powermac g3 desktops I have are display small text against a white background at start up saying "hfs partition not bootable hfs partition not bootable hfs partition not bootable" which carries on repeating itself until the machine boots up (os9)

the machine boots up fine but it doesn't recognise the CD-Drive

I amwondering whether the mac is having trouble seeing things on the ide - whether it be hdd, cd-rom

I looked in system profiler - and the CD drive is not listed

anyone have any ideas what could cause this?

rich

[asthma]

try zaping the pram. hold down apple option r p at the very beggining of the boot let it chime three times then let go. hope this helps!

[P]

Most likely the boot string - the location written into PRAM (or NVRAM, rather, on that machine) of where to begin the boot process has become corrupted for some reason. Zapping the pram might fix that, but it would be easier to go into Startup disk. Click to select no drives at all (meaning that it's being figured out at boot) and close. Open it again, select your start-up drive and close. This rewrites the bootstring again.