Flashing '?' switches to 'Happy Mac' but still doesn't boot
I recently had to reinstall OS X. After successfully doing so, everything works fine, including Classic. But when I try to boot into OS 9.2.2, I get the flashing question mark for about a minute, then it switches to the 'Happy Mac' icon, and I assume it will boot... but it doesn't. It just sits there. A re-install of OS 9.2.2/Classic was successful, but it hasn't changed the problem.
I never encountered this before, even in the 'old' days of OS 6, 7, and 8.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Hi, Mike -
A couple of thoughts come to mind...
1) When you re-installed OSX and Classic, did you first reformat the drive? If so, perhaps the option to install OS 0 drivers was not selected during the formatting process. If the OS 9 drivers are not installed on a volume, OS 9 can not mount the volume - and this includes being able to use it as a boot volume.
2) Is it possible the OS 9 System Folder is not blessed? In OS 9 the 'blessed' status is indicated by a glyph of the Mac OS being superimposed on a standard folder icon; not sure whether OSX does the same, or if you have to find that status info elsewhere.
One other possibility, perhaps. If you have added any non-original hardware to the machine, hardware that requires proprietary software in order to be used in OS 9, if that software has not been re-installed in OS 9 then the machine may balk at booting to OS 9.
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