On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 06:05:48PM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > That's exactly what I did. > MacOS 9.2 from the Installation CD starts to boot. > In the beginning the mouse is working. > After 4 symbols (2 arrows, a question mark, a N, and i think the > quicktime logo) appeared in the lower left corner and the progress has > nearly reached the end, the system hangs. Mouse is not moving anymore. > And after some time CD and harddrive are throttled down. sounds like standard MacOS behavior. > I don't believe the CD is damaged, because, the installed versions of > MacOS (9.2 and X) and their installation CDs (with holding the C key) > all hang durig boot. the number of things that will make macos deadlock and crash is endless. > Is their a possibility to change the way MacOS is booted? > To skip most drivers, or kind of "single user" mode or even > "init=/bin/sh/"? not really. the best you can do is hold down the shift key which disables loading of kludge modules. macos isn't very functional without a large set of kludge modules to reduce stability and create more crashes. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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