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.
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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do you have retail Jaguar full install cd's?
do you have any disk utilities?
I have the Jag CDs.
Is thre a keyboard combo to force select disks?
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.
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.