OK, I recently had to remove the drive in my PowerMac G3 that had OS X Panther on it and now am using my drive with OS 9.2.2. But when it starts up, it says it cant because of the a type 102 error, and it tells me to restart using no extensions using the shift key. It starts up fine when I do, but how do I fix it from there? I'm planning on reinstalling Panther today so help would be appreciated.
Hello! You have an OS9 extension conflict and the only way to fix it is to use the extensions manager (space bar down at startup) to isolate the problem extension. You can start with the base set and add them one at a time until you isolate the offending one. Sometimes watching the icons loading at startup until the freeze will give you an idea of how far along the process is when the problem extension loads and causes the problem. As a side note "ain't OSX great!!! no more system crashes because of extension conflicts! tom
Well I tried opening and I cant, because they dont load at all and the OS wont boot. Quick question: how long do you hold "C" when booting from a CD? Because I start holding it after I hear the startup tone and nothing comes up but a blank grey screen after about a minute.
Despite Tom's otherwise excellent advice, I find holding down the spacebar at startup often makes my Mac unstable. Often, it will not proceed to boot after extensions are re-arranged.
I prefer to boot up (using the shift key the first time to get extensions off) then use Extensions Manager in the running system (not at boot-up) to add a few extensions at a time and re-boot. Using a different name for each incremental set allows you to return to a previously-working set after a bad choice, and continue the investigation.
Only problem is that non of them will load at all. I will probably simply reinstall OS 9 as I have no vital data on the HD anyway. Thanks for all the help though.