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So I was happily puttering away on my G4 Tower yesterday when something hit a glitch and it froze.  So I restarted.  As it's loading up, it say this computer needs to be restarted in five or six different languages.  So i did.  Every time, the same problem, it tells me to restart and I can't get past that.  The only thing I can think is happening as that when my computer originally froze, I was updating to the newest version of Tiger for Power PCs.  Somehow the system info got all mixed up.

This computer has two hard drives, a master running 9.2.2 and the slave running 10.4.7 I thought that if I started up my computer as an external harddrive connected to a second computer, I could update the software from the second.  However, when it loads up, only the master drive loads, the one with no problem other than not running OS X.  I've run disk first aid from the master drive, hardware tests are fine, it's just this blasted system software (I hope!)  Since I don't have the original tiger installer discs handy, can anyone think of a way to start up in firewire mode but have the slave drive pop up???  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  I have to get back to work and this computer problem is stopping me.  Thanks