Well, I've tried a System and Finder that I think come from a generic 
install (7.1), as well as the same from Disk Tools 7.5.  Neither 
helped.  I tried to zap the PRAM, but I am not getting extra bongs at 
startup - so it may not have worked (don't really know why).  Thanks 
everybody for your suggestions so far - I'll keep fooling around with 
it.  Feel free to suggest anything else you think of!

Thanks,
Jim

On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 10:28  PM, Allen Briggs wrote:

> The boot stopping right there is indicative of something being slightly
> scrambled.  If you've got MODE32 set to 32-bit mode and the other stuff,
> it's a bit curious.
>
> When you installed MacOS, did you install a minimal system, or the more
> generic "for any Macintosh model" ?  Is that still an issue, guys ?  It
> at least used to be that a minimal MacOS install was insufficient to
> get the system booting properly.
>
> -allen
>
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