Frozen Mac

Submitted by jcook035 on January 22, 2006 - 9:39pm

Hello everyone

I just got an old Powerbook G3 Lombard and I wanted to check out Mac OS 9 (I'm fairly new to Mac, only familiar with Panther) so I rebooted the computer to start in classic OS 9 and I received nothing but a frozen happy Mac icon. the OS will not load and I can't get back into X to reset it. It will not respond to safe boot. I have an imac, with a panther dvd--is it possible to slave the Powerbook to the imac via ethernet connection and reinstall Panther altogether (the powerbook has a cd-rom drive)?

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Submitted by davintosh on January 22, 2006 - 11:32pm.

That will force it to OS X on startup. For OS 9, it sounds like you're not getting very far into the startup; you might want to do an OS reinstall on it.

What version of OS 9 & OS X do you have installed?

Submitted by jcook035 on January 23, 2006 - 11:59am.

The x key reboot gives the same result. The computer will not even respond to a power button shut down (it randomly shuts itself off--after being idle a few minutes maybe?). I'm afraid I'll definitely have to reinstall the OS--I'm just not sure how to go about doing it as I have a panther 10.3 DVD (came w/ imac); the powerbook has a cd-rom drive. I'm not sure how to either 1) burn the DVD OS image onto a CD or 2)chain the powerbook to the imac (with the reboot DVD in the drive) and reboot the former from the latter.

As I only had the powerbook for about two seconds before I decided to break it I didn't get a chance to note what version of panther came installed on it.