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Nich
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Jul 26, 2001, 06:19 AM
 
Hello

I am having a very strange problem. I would like to boot from the MacOS9.1 CD to partition my HDD and reinstall 9.1 and OSX. However, I can not boot from the os9.1 (by either pressing c at startup or by choosing the CD as a startup disk.)

Any idea how to get this to work? My machine is a G4-466 with 640Mb of RAM, OS9.1 and OSX 10.0.4.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Nich
     
dbhill
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Jul 26, 2001, 03:24 PM
 
Try holding down the Option key at the chime on restart; you should see all bootable volumes to choose from (eventually). Or you can start up from a bootable external hard drive and use the CD from there to format and repartition your main drive.

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