Re: Can't boot OS 9 from within OS 10.4.?

2008-10-17 Thread Kyle Parish
It's a long shot, but if you back up your HD files, than you could... A. try installing OS9 from the installation disk from OSX. B. Reformat the HD using OS9 than install OSX. B should work but it is a long process. On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Clark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > lr

Re: Can't boot OS 9 from within OS 10.4.?

2008-10-17 Thread Clark Martin
lrbarrios wrote: > > On Oct 17, 1:22 am, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sounds like that hard drive was initialized *without* the OS 9 >> drivers. It's a checkbox in Disk Utility... > > That's a very good point! Since I didn't initialize the drive or > install OS 9 on this iMac, I don't kno

Re: Can't boot OS 9 from within OS 10.4.?

2008-10-17 Thread lrbarrios
On Oct 17, 1:22 am, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like that hard drive was initialized *without* the OS 9 > drivers.  It's a checkbox in Disk Utility... That's a very good point! Since I didn't initialize the drive or install OS 9 on this iMac, I don't know if the OS 9 drivers are o

Re: Can't boot OS 9 from within OS 10.4.?

2008-10-17 Thread Kyle Parish
I am doing this from memory. Try clicking on the apple in the top left, and click on system prefrences (I think that is what it is called), click on start-up disks'. If OS9 is still installed than it should show up there. You can choose it as the start-up disk and restart from there. Then go to

Re: Can't boot OS 9 from within OS 10.4.?

2008-10-17 Thread Clark Martin
lrbarrios wrote: > I have a Graphite iMac G3 running OS 10.4. Whenever I go to Startup > Disk and choose the OS 9.2.2 to boot from, it doesn't work. At reboot > I just get the ? folder. It's like it knows that OS 9 is there, but > it doesn't boot. At this point I can't do anything. I try rese