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?

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