Horatio_too
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Hi
Got some largely self-inflicted problems with a Graphite 400MHz iMac DV SE, now stuck in OS 9.0 after an upgrade to OS X.
The story:-
We are in the UK, and the machine belongs to a neighbour who wanted to get onto broadband using British Telecom (BT). Only problem was that BT insist that Mac users have OS X and at least 256Mb of RAM, whilst my neighbour's iMAC was OS 9.0 and 128Mb.
No problem, I said, I'll help out by upgrading to 1Gb of RAM and install OS X for you, which I duly did (via an interim OS 9.1 upgrade to allow the OS X installer to run).
Note that for the OS X upgrade, I just followed the on-screen prompts, which resulted in OS X being installed onto the SAME partition as OS 9.0. and 9.1.
The machine worked fine under OS X and I was on the verge of returning to my neighbour... then curiosity crept in !
I should say at this point that I am computer-savvy, but most of my experience is with PCs, with only the occasional trip into the land of Macs, so Mac knowledge is rather shakier than I would like.
However, the upgrade had gone fine, the PC had passed BT's on-line check for being a suitable spec, everything was fine - except that Classic mode was playing up. Not a major problem, as my neighbour only occasionally used Appleworks 5, but I thought that I'd be "nice" and try to resolve the issue...BIG mistake !
Put it down to naivety, madness or whatever, but I thought "I'll just check whether the machine can still boot into OS 9" and so, from within OS X, specified that the machine should boot from the OS 9.0 folder.
Naively, I assumed that there would be a reciprocal option in OS 9.0 to allow me to again specify booting from the OS X folder once I was done - WRONG !
As such, I am now stuck with the machine back in OS 9.0. If anybody can help me get it back to booting into OS X, then I will be VERY grateful.
Many thanks in advance,
Horatio_too
Got some largely self-inflicted problems with a Graphite 400MHz iMac DV SE, now stuck in OS 9.0 after an upgrade to OS X.
The story:-
We are in the UK, and the machine belongs to a neighbour who wanted to get onto broadband using British Telecom (BT). Only problem was that BT insist that Mac users have OS X and at least 256Mb of RAM, whilst my neighbour's iMAC was OS 9.0 and 128Mb.
No problem, I said, I'll help out by upgrading to 1Gb of RAM and install OS X for you, which I duly did (via an interim OS 9.1 upgrade to allow the OS X installer to run).
Note that for the OS X upgrade, I just followed the on-screen prompts, which resulted in OS X being installed onto the SAME partition as OS 9.0. and 9.1.
The machine worked fine under OS X and I was on the verge of returning to my neighbour... then curiosity crept in !
I should say at this point that I am computer-savvy, but most of my experience is with PCs, with only the occasional trip into the land of Macs, so Mac knowledge is rather shakier than I would like.
However, the upgrade had gone fine, the PC had passed BT's on-line check for being a suitable spec, everything was fine - except that Classic mode was playing up. Not a major problem, as my neighbour only occasionally used Appleworks 5, but I thought that I'd be "nice" and try to resolve the issue...BIG mistake !
Put it down to naivety, madness or whatever, but I thought "I'll just check whether the machine can still boot into OS 9" and so, from within OS X, specified that the machine should boot from the OS 9.0 folder.
Naively, I assumed that there would be a reciprocal option in OS 9.0 to allow me to again specify booting from the OS X folder once I was done - WRONG !
As such, I am now stuck with the machine back in OS 9.0. If anybody can help me get it back to booting into OS X, then I will be VERY grateful.
Many thanks in advance,
Horatio_too