TOPIC When more than one Mac OS 9 System Folder per volume appears in the System Preferences application or in the System Disk application, you may use this method to choose the System Folder you want to use to start up the computer. DISCUSSION
Symptom More than one System Folder per volume (a disk or disk partition) appears as a startup disk choice in either the Mac OS X Public Beta System Preferences application or in the Mac OS 9 System Disk application. Products affected Solution Choose a System Folder that has a name that looks like this:
Mac OS For example, if you had a hard disk (or partition) named "Maria's iMac," you would choose the System Folder named:
Mac OS
Mac OS If you need more than one Mac OS 9 or earlier System Folder, try placing each one on a separate hard disk partition to avoid confusion. Only Mac OS 9 and later work with the Classic environment in Mac OS X Public Beta. Additional background information on system folders You do not need the following information to select an appropriate System Folder, but it may help you understand or eliminate undesired copies of the System Folder. This issue occurs when Mac OS X Public Beta or System Disk detect either an extra blessed System Folder or a deactivated System Folder that is no longer in use. As a basic rule of Mac OS 9 maintenance, you should not have more than one "blessed" System Folder per volume. You can identify a blessed System Folder by the appearance of the smiling Mac OS logo as a part of the folder's icon. This is the way the Mac OS signals to you that a System Folder contains the components to start up the computer. If you have more than one blessed System Folder on any single disk or disk partition, you should deactivate that System Folder by removing the item named Finder from the folder and storing it in another location. It is not common to have more than one blessed System Folder per volume. But this could happen, for example, if you copied the entire contents of a system startup CD into a folder on a hard disk. A deactivated System Folder is most often present after performing a clean installation of the Mac OS software. You do not have to eliminate or modify a Previous System Folder after a clean installation, but it is safe to delete the folder after deciding whether you need to save any information that might have been stored there (such as an email or a bookmarks file). In versions of Mac OS prior to Mac OS X Public Beta, the Startup Disk control panel would not recognize a volume's System Folder if that folder was not blessed. Mac OS X Public Beta introduces a different behavior by recognizing such a folder. |
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| Document Information | |
| Product Area: | Mac OS System Software |
| Category: | Mac OS X |
| Sub Category: | General Topics |
| Keywords: | kmosX |
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