| Remove the 2 minute delay from the startup disk check.
If you crash, and have the General Controls Shutdown Warning turned on, MountCheck checks your drive on the next restart. If you're not there to hit OK when it's finished, the dialog box stays there for 2 minutes! Thanks to Steven Bytnar, you can now remove this delay.
Updated for MacOS 9.1 at the end.
 Open a copy of the System suitcase is ResEdit and find the boot resources.
Under MacOS 9.0.4, the boot resource is in the PowerPC Enabler 9.0.4.
 If you have an iMac or Blue G3, open the MacOS ROM file instead.
Complete the edit on this file instead of the System suitcase.
 Open ID# 3
 Type Command-F for the HEX Find command.
Steve figured out that a 2 minute delay equals 7200 ticks.
7200 decimal is 1C20 Hex. So do a find for 1C20.
 But just not any old 1C20 will do!
It can't be split across two columns
 It needs to be all in one column as shown on the left.
It will also be located towards the end of the resource in a row beginning with 00Bxxx.
Unfortunately, I can't be more specific because the location changes slightly depending on the system version.
For example, in my version of 8.5.1, the location was in row 00B708. Fortunately, it appears that 1C20 appears (in a single column) only once in boot resource 3.
Once you find 1C20, change it to 0001 and the startup delay will be eliminated.
That's all it takes. Save your work and quit Resedit. Replace the old System suitcase with the new one. Because of the ambiguities in this particular edit, you'll want to make sure you hang on to the old System suitcase until you test the edited one.
And how do you test your work? By deliberately crashing your Mac! No, not by running Netscape Communicater in a one meg memory partition, but by hitting Control-Command-Powerkey.
Make sure that the Shutdown warning it checked in the General Controls control panel. Then perform the "Three Finger Salute" (Control-Command-Powerkey), and when the computer restarts, the MountCheck repair program will run.
There will be no delay when it finishes, the boot process will immediately continue.
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Richard Rice adds, "Not a comment so much as an update to the 'Remove the 2 minute delay from the startup disk check edit. I got it to work under MacOS 9.1. The 'boot' resource is now in the System Suitcase, and the hex '1C20' is located on line 00B2D8.
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