Re: 10.3.2 and 9.2.2 on same partition?

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:49:24 -0800

Sounds like you're missing the OS 9 hard disk drivers. I ran into the same thing, myself. I did a fresh install of Panther and when I initialized the hard drive, I did not select to have OS 9 drivers installed, since I'd planned not to boot to the old system ever again.... until, of course, the gaming bug bit me and I had a craving for some old 3D games. After re-installing OS 9, I ran into the same symptoms you describe when trying to boot from that operating system.

Problem is, as far as I could tell from my research, there's no way to add those all-important drivers to the host drive after the fact. You have to initialize it all over again... doable if you have a second hard drive and Carbon Copy Cloner to back up your current setup. "So why don't I just initialize the second drive, with OS 9 drivers, and put the OS 9 folder on that?".... been there, done that. Sure, now I can boot to OS 9 just fine. But then when you're in OS 9, it can't see the OS X drive, so you can't choose to boot back to X without using a boot CD. And no, holding down the "X" key doesn't work in this case.

Tony


On 20-Jan-04, at 3:46 PM, Charles Miller wrote:

G4 Dual (mirror doors), 867MHz, 2GB+memory, 380GB storage,
10.3.2

Since installing Panther, it seems that I can't startup
from 9.2.2 anymore. The Classic environment runs just fine
when I launch it from the Panther desktop---but when I
select 9.2.2 as my Startup, the thing
refuses to boot properly... Flashing question mark on a
floppy disk. I went back and tried the blessing ritual, and
the OS 9 System Folder LOOKS active, but it still won't
boot up in 9.2.2.... Does it matter that Panther and 9.2.2
are on the same partition? Funny, it never made any
difference to Jaguar.
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