Verify Disk greyed out since 10.4.8

Since upgrading some G4's to 10.4.8, I no longer can verify the startup disk when started up from the startup disk. Verify is greyed out. I was so pleased to have this function in Tiger. It allowed me to at least check for problems without starting up from another drive.
This week I configured a new 17 inch macbook for someone and could not do a verify there either, brand new 10.4.8 disk came with the computer. When I started up off of a 10.4.7 intel partition on a firewire drive I could verify the firewire drive fine as it was the startup.
I want to update my mini to 10.4.8 but don't want to lose the verify feature. Any ideas or answers welcome and thank you.
Intel Dual Mac-Mini, G4 Powerbook, G4-933 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

The answer to my question is if journaling is turned off, you can't verify the disk. Turn on journaling and verify becomes an option. I think you can only toggle journaling if the disk is formatted in extended rather than extended (journaled).

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I'm running 10.4.9 & have everything updated except for the recent Pro App. I wanted to verify my disk before installing this when I noticed that the button was greyed out! I click on my hard drive, I click on my disk & it's still greyed out!
Any ideas?
Thanks!

I never use the Verify Disk feature from my boot volume which can report a problem that doesn't exist when later running Repair Disk via Disk Utility when booted from your install disc.
If a problem is reported when selecting Verify Disk via Disk Utility from your boot volume, you will need to do the repair when booted from your Tiger install disc anyway so best all around to go ahead and do this from the outset, select your language and at the Installer menu bar, navigate to Disk Utility. Select your boot volume in the drives and volumes window which is usually Macintosh HD and under the First Aid tab, select Repair Disk.
Selecting Repair Disk does a Verify first anyway and if a problem is discovered attempts to make the repair so running Verify Disk first or instead of Repair Disk only each time does not gain anything.

Repair disk greyed out in disk utilities

I am trying to repair my harddrive using disk utilities but its greyed out. if you verify the disk it says.
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Volume Header needs minor repair
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You cannot do this from the same start-up disk. Reboot from your install disk (holding down the C key). Once it opens, select your language, and then go to Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Select your hard disk as before and click Repair.
Once that is complete reboot again from your usual start-up disk.
More useful reading here:
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417?viewlocale=en_US
For a full description of how to resolve Disk, Permission and Cache Corruption, you should read this FAQ from the X Lab:
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Repair disk greyed out?

this may be a no-brainer, but i'm stumped. i recently installed Tiger onto one of my disk partitions (i'll refer to the partition as 'B") so that i could use DiskWarrior to repair the startup disk ("A").
Prior to this, when I was running DW off the CD it was taking very long, appeared to hang on step 6 for 24 hours.
the workaround worked great, repaired the disk in a matter of minutes.
now however, i'm not sure if i've altered my system configuration.
i was a bit freaked when after installing Tiger on the partition it restarted with the partition "B" as the startup. i changed the startup back to the original "A" and thought all was well.
now however, i think i've noticed another change.
in disk utility, the "repair disk" button is greyed out for "A"
"A" shows Verify Disk Permissions, Repair Disk Permissions, and Verify Disk as options but NOT Repair Disk
"B" however allows for all the options
(Side note, I have 2 other partitions as well, now they only offer "Verify" and "Repair Disk", whereas I'm certain they used to allow for all options previously. Also, I've added an external HD during these changes. Maybe that's a factor?)
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I know DW takes a looooooong time to run. I've never seen it take 24hrs.
DiskWarrior has an update for Tiger, You might check to see if you are using the newest version for DW.
sometimes the computer sees whatever version your Mac has on its various drives and chooses the newest version to startup.
I have 3 HD's an ext 40GB, a 120GB, and the original 80GB drive the Mac came with. OS9.2.2 on the 120GB, OSX 10.2.7 on the 40GB. and the main drive has OSX 10.3.9. I am sure Tiger works similar, the computer will make a choice to boot up with the newest OS, unless you tell it which OS to boot with. I may very well be wrong... just my observation from trial and error.
I aim to remove my 10.2.7 when I get Tiger in next few months. consolidate my 9.2.2 & 10.3.9 on the 120GB and put Tiger brand new on the 80GB.
So if things never work right, I can always reboot onto the old Panther.
Of course when moving OSX system, always use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, unless you like installing the OSX brand new everytime. OS9 is not as anal retentive.
Verify/Repair Permissions is Very different from Verify/Repair Disk.
your Disk Repair thing will never repair the startup/boot disk. If you are want here is good way to go...
Boot off your OSX install discs. When it gets to the Install screen it asks what langauage you wish to install. Goto the File Menu and choose to Quit the installer. normally is an Option to use the Disk Utility. Then You should be able to Verify and Repair disk all you want on both Partitions without issue.
Non-OSX disks will not allow Verify/Repair Permissions, but you can Verify/Repair Disk to hearts content on them.

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Although my external drive shows in Disk Utility, it does not show in Finder.
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REPAIR DISK button greyed out

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Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid node structure
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
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Joel,
You are probably going to find that booting to the install disk and running Disk Utility that way isn't going to help any further that "fsck" did. In fact, there is no difference between the command line "fsck" and Disk Utility's "Repair Disk" routine.
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