So, I managed to get my computer to start up, and I'm definitely thinking the problem lies with my hard drives. Does anyone know how to tell a mac that the 2-gig drive is and always will be the startup disk over the 8-gig?
2: select the 2-gig disk in the Startup Disk control panel
If you don't select it, it _should_ default to the last thing you booted from, but depending on the version of the firmware, it may boot from the first bootable disk it finds.
If it consistenly doesn't find your 2GB disk to be bootable, even when you select it, that disk may have problems.
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Oh, yeah, that's useful.
Incidentally, I installed OpenBSD on your mom, and she's STILL really easy to get into.
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MacOS 9ish?
1: don't put an OS on the 8-gig disk. 8)
2: select the 2-gig disk in the Startup Disk control panel
If you don't select it, it _should_ default to the last thing you booted from, but depending on the version of the firmware, it may boot from the first bootable disk it finds.
If it consistenly doesn't find your 2GB disk to be bootable, even when you select it, that disk may have problems.