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<blockquote data-quote="jp_tix" data-source="post: 17731">Hi,I'm using OS X 10.2.? on a Blue/White G3. I recently came home from a vacation and to my suprise the machine started OS 9.2 when I turned on the machine. I changed that back to the OS X folder in the Startup Disk control panel, and everything worked ok. It's described here <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106389" target="_blank">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106389</a>(no question mark for me though)Today it unexpectedly started in OS 9 again, except this time it froze at the &quot;Starting up...&quot; screen. It didn't actually freeze, I could move the mouse, but the cursor turned into a bomb and the progress bar stopped before loading any extensions. I tried restarting, emptying the PRAM with Command+Option+P+R AND in the OpenFirmware, no luck. Popped in my OS 9 system cd, and it still wouldn't boot. Stopped in the exactly same place, but the cursor didn't turn into a bomb this time. Is this a hardware error?Any ideas?I'm desperate since the machine is useless right now. A possible workaround would be making the machine boot OS X instead from the OpenFirmware, if that's possible. Any help is greatly appreciated. Best,jp</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jp_tix, post: 17731"] Hi, I'm using OS X 10.2.? on a Blue/White G3. I recently came home from a vacation and to my suprise the machine started OS 9.2 when I turned on the machine. I changed that back to the OS X folder in the Startup Disk control panel, and everything worked ok. It's described here [url]http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106389[/url] (no question mark for me though) Today it unexpectedly started in OS 9 again, except this time it froze at the "Starting up..." screen. It didn't actually freeze, I could move the mouse, but the cursor turned into a bomb and the progress bar stopped before loading any extensions. I tried restarting, emptying the PRAM with Command+Option+P+R AND in the OpenFirmware, no luck. Popped in my OS 9 system cd, and it still wouldn't boot. Stopped in the exactly same place, but the cursor didn't turn into a bomb this time. Is this a hardware error? Any ideas? I'm desperate since the machine is useless right now. A possible workaround would be making the machine boot OS X instead from the OpenFirmware, if that's possible. Any help is greatly appreciated. Best, jp [/QUOTE]

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