[Steve555]

I know this has probably been covered elsewhere, and if you know where, please point me to it. Problem: I just reformatted my hard drive to set up 2 partitions, one for OSX and one for 9.2.2 and ran into a problem. I can no longer see either partition.

I had backed up the whole disk to a firewire drive prior to doing all this. However, I can't boot from the firewire drive either. I thought I should be able to do this but when I hold down the option key when re-booting, none of the firewire partitions show up.

I have booted using Norton Systemworks but it doesn't see the drive either.

I finally rebooted from the OSX install disk (v10.0.3) and re-installed OSX. I was able to boot system X and I could run in Classic off the 9.2.2 partition, but when I went and selected to boot in 9.2.2 using Startup Disk, I got the flashing ??? again.

What the hecks going on and how can I fix this???

Oh... I should mention that when I boot from the 9.2.1 CD it hangs just after it boots so I can't do anything.

Please help...

Steve
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[Nobody]

Sounds like it could be related to one of the partitions and possibly the type of computer you have (Beige G3?). With some computers the boot partition for OS 9 must be no greater than 8 GB.
Jim

[Steve555]

Sorry I left this out. I have a 400 mHz G4.

I made two equal partitions of about 5 GB each.

The problem in a nutshell: I used Diskwarrior to partition. Should I have used Apple's own utility? If so, how can I use it if I can't boot up from the 9.2.1 installer disk?

Steve

[Nobody]

There is a disk utility in the OS X CD. It's under one of the menus in the menu bar. You can use that to format your drive.

[Steve555]

I was able to boot from an emergency Zip disk I had made up. I reformatted everything. Re-instlled 9.2.2 and an aboout to re-do the OS X disk. Wish me luck.

Thanks for the advise.