Thanks Dan, and others who replied. Yes, I checked the box to put the
OS-9 driver on the drive when I cloned the contents of the original one
over to it. I suspect the problem of the clone not booting into 9 is
related to the fact that the drive I cloned from was originally running
in a G4-733 when OS-9.2.2 was installed on it. Still, that drive boots
perfectly into 9 when I put it back in the Quicksilver. So how come
its clone won't do it?
I can't directly install OS-9 on this Quicksilver right now, because my
733's OS-9 installer disks are for 9.1, and the QS won't accept
anything less than 9.2. So, I'll have to get some 9.2 installer discs,
but until I do, I'm just trying to get this clone to boot into 9
because I have hardware and apps that require it.
I can always put the smaller original drive back into the QS and boot
into 9, but I haven't given up on the larger cloned drive just yet.
I tried to "bless" the OS-9 System folder on the cloned drive by
double-clicking on it while holding the option key down, and when that
had no effect, I did the same thing to the System icon itself within
the folder, but no dice, the drive still won't boot into 9.
In the Startup Disk pane of OS-X System Prefs, this cloned drive shows
up as having a bootable 9.2.2 on it, but if I choose it and restart, I
only get a glimpse of the OS-9 smiley face before the screen goes
black, a question mark appears, and then the Mac restarts into OS-X
again.
I have other 9.2.2 systems on other drives, both internal and external,
that were bootable into 9 in the 733, but none of them will now boot
into 9 in the Quicksilver; all I get is that glimpse of the smiley
face, then the blinking question mark, followed by a restart into X. So
it must have something to do with these drives now living in the
Quicksilver and being unhappy about it for some reason.
But still, how come that one original drive will still boot into 9.2.2
if I put it back into the Quicksilver instead of its clone?
Mysteries . . .
Dan, I looked at that page about blessing a system folder in Open
Firmware, but that kind of stuff is way over my head. I wouldn't dare
try it for fear of screwing up something big-time. Only simple stuff
for me.
Thanks for the help!
Tom
On Dec 20, 2005, at 8:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 4:09 AM -0700 12/20/2005, Tom Baker wrote:
I had a hard drive in my Quicksilver that had 9.2.2 on it, which was
useful for booting back into OS-9 when I needed to. I decided to
replace that drive with a bigger one, so I cloned all the contents of
the original hard drive onto a new, larger one, using Disk Utility's
Restore function. (I did this by putting the new, larger drive into
the Mac and setting the jumpers as a slave to the original drive,
then cloning from the master to the slave).
So, the larger drive is now a clone of the smaller one and has
replaced the smaller one inside the Mac, with its jumpers reset to
master. However, it won't boot back into 9 like the original one
will.
Did you make sure to put the OS 9 driver on it during initialization?
Without that driver it ain't bootin in 9.
Don't I remember something about an OS-9 System folder needing to be
"blessed" or something before it will work?
All bootable systems have to be blessed, regardless of the OS.
blessing == the action that tells the bootstrap what system to boot
from.
Just double-click on the System Folder while holding down the option
key to re-bless it.
When things are really broken - you're getting that "?" icon during
boot - you can manually bless a system from within OpenFirmware. See
the bottom section of this page for directions:
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/openfirmware.html
More likely you forgot to put the OS 9 driver on the drive tho...
- Dan.
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