I have a Mac G3. OS 10.2.8 and 9.2.2 are both installed within the same partition of my hard drive and I have kept current with all updates. While in OS 10.2.8, I switched startup disk to 9.2.2, but my computer won't restart.
It gets past the smiling Mac icon to the welcome page with a black and white pizza spinning in the upper left corner. Process status bar gets to about 20% when the pizza turns to a bomb. No extensions appear at the bottom of my screen.
I attempted to boot from a CD with the C key held down, but nothing happens. Restarting with Control-Option-Shift-Delete keys held down will allow start-up from the CD, but it does the exact same thing as described above. I know it is booting from the CD because the CD graphics appear in the background.
I am able to boot from a Disk Warrior CD by holding down the C key. Disk Warrior reports finding critical errors, but says it was able to rebuild directory successfully. I am also able to boot from a SystemWorks CD by holding down the C key. Norton reports finding major and minor problems, but says it was able to fix all of them.
I tried booting back into OSX using my original OS10 CD and my OS Jaguar CD. Holding down the C key does nothing. Holding down the Control-Option-Shift-Delete key gets me to the smiling Mac, which disappears in one second. Next I hear the startup chime, which gets me back to the smiling Mac, which again disappears in one second. Etc. Etc.
I'm stumped.
Any help will be much appreciated.
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