Two possibilities when an older Mac running OS X won't boot into a newly installed version of OS 9: 1) The System Folder was not blessed. (You did a drag-install.) 2) The drive was initialized for OS X without the optional OS 9 drivers.
I would try mounting the Bondi on the another Mac in target disk mode and examining it this way. You may be able to bless the System Folder, but I doubt you can do anything about missing drivers, save backing up all and reinitializing off a CD. You definitely cannot boot off USB, and probably not off FireWire either. This was a real killer situation for the earliest iMacs, which IIRC did not come with reinstall CDs, either. Booting off a disk image on an ethernet server might be an alternative. You may have to extract the drive and install it temporarily in an external case. > I copied a working 9.2.2 System folder from a Bondi to the working >10.4 hard drive of my Graphite. Everything looks fine. Went to >'Startup Disk' and tried to boot from the newly added 9.2.2. Now, all >I get on power ON is a flashing folder. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
