Please help...2 Beige G3s booting w/disk&flashing '?'

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kedakeda
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I'm not sure what to do from here. In OS9, I would boot from the CD. What should I do from here?



The machines don't seem to be able to find the HD.

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    were they running OSX before?



    do you have retail Jaguar full install cd's?



    do you have any disk utilities?
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  • Reply 2 of 8
    kedakeda Posts: 722member
    Yes, they were running X fine. I'm not sure what happened.



    I have the Jag CDs.
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  • Reply 3 of 8
    kedakeda Posts: 722member
    I verified the disks from the X install CD...it said the HD was fine.



    Is thre a keyboard combo to force select disks?
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  • Reply 4 of 8
    stroszekstroszek Posts: 801member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Keda

    I verified the disks from the X install CD...it said the HD was fine.



    Is thre a keyboard combo to force select disks?



    Startup up while holding down option.
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  • Reply 5 of 8
    kedakeda Posts: 722member
    Thanks for the help. 1 is repaired. The OSX CD Disk Tools reported that there were no problems. So, I rebooted and still had the same problem.



    Then I dug out my OS9 CD and booted from it (w/PRAM resets). On the first boot, the Mac reported that the HD was unreadable and wanted to initialize it. NOPE! I rebooted again and this time the HD showed up on the desktop. This allowed me to select the OSX system for start-up. After a reboot, all is well.
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  • Reply 6 of 8
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    weird. i've seen this happen on occasion. a lot of time an OS9 norton disk will do the trick as well.
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  • Reply 7 of 8
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    Just a friendly reminder to back up your data "just in case". I had this happen a few days before a hard drive DIED!

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  • Reply 8 of 8
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    In all honesty, and I know you'd probably do it were it viable, but you want to get rid of those beige g3s. The old world systems have some serious issues with OS X. They're cursed, I say, begone with them!
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