I pulled from the dark recesses of my mind a tidbit about os9 not liking a partition larger than 8gig, so I installed os9 to a partition of 7900 meg at the beginning of the os9 disk. It booted fine. Now to try Classilla!
On Sep 24, 3:16 pm, Timothy <ducati900fe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have the os9 disk drivers on both drives, and osx booted off the os9 > drive when it had both. Now it boots to os9, has a smiley face for a > second, then reboots into osx. I also failed to mention that I tried > changing the startup disk in sys prefs, and that didn't work. I think > xBoot is taking over after it boots into os9. I have been trying many > different ways through the bless command in terminal, maybe I'll get > it. > > On Sep 24, 2:35 pm, dc <dbc...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > > > It boots from the CD so the problem is likely your hard drive. How is > > your hard drive formatted? If you set it up with OS X you have to make > > sure to install OS 9 drivers. You might need to reformat the hard > > drive using that option. You probably don't need 200 GB for OS 9, you > > caould partition the drive into 2 sections, 20 GB shouyld be enough > > for OS 9 with lots of apps, the other 180 GB could be a backup for > > your data or a clone of OS X for emergency startup. > > > On Sep 24, 1:26 pm, Timothy <ducati900fe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > I have a Digital Audio DP533mhz that I want to play old games on, and > > > use old adobe software, pretty much use as a toy, I have a g5 and a > > > macbook pro so I don't need the thing, but I really want to go back to > > > the old days of my imac once in a while. > > > > I cannot boot into os9. I have a generic retail 9.2.1 cd that I have > > > tried to install and it almost works. I have installed os9, didnt't > > > work so I replaced the System Folder with the one from the 9.2.1 > > > install cd, and opened it to bless it, but when I restart as I press > > > the option key it offers the hard drive system folder as a boot option > > > then tries to boot, reboots and goes into Panther. > > > > 1. I have an Adaptec card that has the 2 hard drives, one on each bus, > > > both are cable select and format fine but > > > 2. They are both over 200 gig. That isn't the problem is it? The > > > card allows for big drives, and is why I got it. > > > 3. It boots from the retail cd fine. > > > 4. I got the computer off ebay and I don't have the original install > > > cds, but places likehttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT1835 > > > say that 9.2.1, which is written on my retail cd, is supported. > > > 5. 10.3 works great on one of the hard drives, I want os9 solo on the > > > other one and thought it would make it easier. > > > 6. Classic works fine, I tried opening the system folder on the os9 > > > drive in classic to bless it for when it boots off the hard drive but > > > it didn't work. It would change the system folder form a regular > > > folder to one with a smile face on it, but it would boot from the os9 > > > drive for a second then reboot right away into osx. > > > 7. I tried using the "sudo bless -folder9 .../path... -use9 or - > > > setBoot " from inside osx and it didn't work. > > > 8. I reset the pram a bunch of times. > > > > Any ideas? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list