I have a Power Mac G4 Sawtooth AGP on which I wanted to install the Sonnet Encore G4 ST processor upgrade. I installed the firmware upgrade, which then recommended that I reboot in OS 9 mode.
I turned the computer off, held the "programmer" button as noted in the Sonnet instructions, heard a beep as I was supposed to, and the computer booted up in OS 9.2.2 mode. I then got this weird message: "This disk is unreadable by this computer. Do you want to initialize the disk?"
I found my mouse was dead, and my keyboard also seemingly unresponsive.
This Power Mac has a graphite Pro Keyboard installed and Mighty Mouse. It has Tiger as the main OS. There are two hard drives, 30 and 20 gb. The 30 gB has OS 9.2.2 boot, and 20 gB the OS X boot.
I finally realized it was confused over the 250 gB external hard drive I had attached to a USB port to transfer the firmware to the computer, and I had forgotten to eject this drive. I turned the computer off by accident when I bumped the power supply, and it finally shut down. I removed the external hard drive.
I turned the computer back on, heard the boot chime, and nothing appeared on the screen accept gray. Nothing else. It doesn't seem to boot anymore into 9.2.2 or X. What can I do to get back into an OS?
I turned the computer off, held the "programmer" button as noted in the Sonnet instructions, heard a beep as I was supposed to, and the computer booted up in OS 9.2.2 mode. I then got this weird message: "This disk is unreadable by this computer. Do you want to initialize the disk?"
I found my mouse was dead, and my keyboard also seemingly unresponsive.
This Power Mac has a graphite Pro Keyboard installed and Mighty Mouse. It has Tiger as the main OS. There are two hard drives, 30 and 20 gb. The 30 gB has OS 9.2.2 boot, and 20 gB the OS X boot.
I finally realized it was confused over the 250 gB external hard drive I had attached to a USB port to transfer the firmware to the computer, and I had forgotten to eject this drive. I turned the computer off by accident when I bumped the power supply, and it finally shut down. I removed the external hard drive.
I turned the computer back on, heard the boot chime, and nothing appeared on the screen accept gray. Nothing else. It doesn't seem to boot anymore into 9.2.2 or X. What can I do to get back into an OS?