Recently, one of my G4s (dual 1G) stopped booting into 9.2.1. (I'm a
developer, and we grudgingly still need to support 9). Last week my
internal drive went belly up, so I reformatted it, reinstalled 10.3.5
and 9.2.1, and put restored files from a backup. Even with this fresh
OS9 folder, it will get to the "Starting Up..." message at about 15%
through the boot progress bar, then it goes no further. Just sits there.

It's won't even boot from an OS9 install CD, or a fairly virgin OS9
installation on an external FireWire partition. All of them stop at the
same place.

I ran the extended hardware test from a 10.1 or 10.2 Hardware Test CD.
Pulled the DIMM and cleaned the dust off, check all the other
connections, but it just won't work. Hell, even zapped the PRAM.

Any thoughts?

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Steve Mills
Mac geek, drummer

Steve Mills wrote:
> Recently, one of my G4s (dual 1G) stopped booting into 9.2.1. (I'm a
> developer, and we grudgingly still need to support 9). Last week my
> internal drive went belly up, so I reformatted it, reinstalled 10.3.5
> and 9.2.1, and put restored files from a backup. Even with this fresh
> OS9 folder, it will get to the "Starting Up..." message at about 15%
> through the boot progress bar, then it goes no further. Just sits there.
>
> It's won't even boot from an OS9 install CD, or a fairly virgin OS9
> installation on an external FireWire partition. All of them stop at the
> same place.
>
> I ran the extended hardware test from a 10.1 or 10.2 Hardware Test CD.
> Pulled the DIMM and cleaned the dust off, check all the other
> connections, but it just won't work. Hell, even zapped the PRAM.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
I'm sure someone will CMIIW, but don't you need to upgrade to 9.2.2 for
Classic to run with OS X?