>>
>>	My advice for the moment to other people contemplating OS 8.1 & HFS+
>>installs is _don't_
>
>To be honest, I'm not sure if it's the Apple driver, the HFS+ partition,
>or the way I installed it (the system appears to not want to reboot in
>MacOS, either).  Fortunately I have an alternate disk with full OS8.1 (no
>HFS+ partitions) and non-Apple driver that I was able to boot from.
>
>~Steve


Steve nad everyone else.

I have noticed this same problem here on my Quadra.  Turning off All 
extensions at boot time seems to fix it for me though./

-Greg