Haalp! Wiped out Mac OS Partitions from Hard Drive, Now cant boot!

[Felix Jodoin]

Try reseting the PRAM by holding Command+Option+P+R at startup.
-AliasN

On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 04:46  AM, Santa Klaus wrote:

> Hiyas,
>
> Was playing around with a friends old 9600/200, with
> OS 9 on it. I was trying to install Dayton, and was
> going great guns .. Or so I thought.
>
> Im new to macs, so when I got BootX to work in text
> mode, I thought ok, Id get some kind of Xconfigurator
> to work with the video hardware and that I was home
> and dry... Wrong!
>
> Install went fine, from a Ramdisk .. But when it
> rebooted, all I got was a nasty gray screen with a
> floppy icon with a question mark inside it.
>
> It appears that I partitioned the Mac's Hard drive
> incorrectly. I should have made one /boot partition
> with at least 10-50 mb on it, w/ an HFS file system ..
> I thought that it would be just like Linux so I
> formatted all my nre partitions for ext2! Just like
> Linux on a x86 :(( My bad.
>
> Any ideas? Can I boot into the CD ISO I have? Isnt
> working though .. I tried .. Should I reburn the ISO
> onto a 650 MB CDR? Some of the psts on the list
> suggest that this might work ..
>
> Well thanks in advance, be nice, get a virtual present
> this (OS) X-Mas.
>
>
>
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