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solecist · Jul 4, 2003, 01:20 PM

I am having some hard disk difficulties and wanted to start up from my Norton SystemWorks 2 disk. Put it in, held C and it was ignored. I went to the startup panel in SysPrefs and where it used to give me an option to starup from an internal disk with an OS9 system on it - it won't now. Neither will a firewire OS9 disk be allowed or recognized.

How do I get OS9 back? I need to do some scanning over SCSI that's not supported in X also?

solecist · Jul 4, 2003, 08:06 PM

My other two older macs running 10.2.6 still show OS9 bootable volumes and let me boot to 9 just fine. Any thoughts?

jonny05 · Jul 5, 2003, 06:08 AM

Have you checked the OS 9 volumes in Disk Utility to see if there are any errors preventing the Mac booting from them?

solecist · Jul 6, 2003, 10:50 PM

Apple.com: some computers will not start up in OS9

I bought this system last month, so I guess Apple says I can't boot to OS9 - but before I managed to startup from the system works CD in os9. Oh, well.