I’m trying to resurrect a Power Mac 8600/250 that’s showing the blinking question mark/floppy disk when trying to boot from the hard drive. I have the "Mac OS 8.1 (Universal Install) Toast / ISO CD Image" from this site that I burned long ago, and it begins booting from the CD drive until it stops at this message:
“Sorry, the desktop folder on the startup disk could not be created. Try unlocking the disk”
The solution described here (
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,2624.msg15716.html#msg15716) is to not burn the CD in OS X (which I probably did) but to use Toast in OS9. So, I tried that, but ended up with an 8.1 CD that won’t boot and does not contain a blessed System folder. So, I’m clearly doing something wrong. Here’s what I did:
- Downloaded “Mac OS 8.1 (Universal Install) Toast / ISO CD Image” using TenFourFox 32.5 in OS 10.4.11
- Unstuffed the image file with Stuffit Expander 7.0.3 in OS9.2.2 (on a Mac 1.25 Mini)
- Burned the CD using Toast 5.2.3 in OS9.2.2
The Toast Help file describes a number of options for how to burn the CD – data, ISO9600, Mac Volume, etc. I used the data option and ended up with a CD where all the folders and files of the image are present, but the System folder is not blessed. When I try to boot from this CD, all I get is the blinking question mark.
Should I use a different method in Toast for burning the CD? Should I use the 9.1 install image instead of 8.1? I understand this computer can boot 7.6.1 – 9.1. Should I use a different version of Toast?
Thanks for any help you can provide.