Hi Kris;
At last some comments that sound like someone understands the areas that seem to screw up for me on my Beige G3
10.2.8 installed minor glitches so! zap pram! Then booting finds 9.1 --- no way to get back to OSX except a 'Re-Install' of OSX.
This is with an 80G IDE drive, partitioned 8G - OSX; 33G- OS9.1;39G-SCRATCH
Adding a 9G SCSI drive to the mix, allowed me to also install OSX in a 5G partition, with 4G for cache.
Any time ANYTHING botched things up, the machine would find the second partition on the 80G disk, and boot into 9.1
Even following Apple's recommendation to use the 'Startup disk' (Ver. 9.2.4) on the 'Install disk /utilities' for selecting back to OSX' didn't work.
My question --- Are you aware of anyone who has figured out (and done) the steps necessary to backup and be able to restore the NVRAM & PRAM to the 'Boot into X' state?
For starters I would update to OS 9.2.2. While OS 9.1 is "aware" of OS X I believe it was designed for OS X.0 or X.1. The changes that produced OS 9.2.2 were all directed at OS X support.
Other than that all I can say is that I use OS X.2.6 and OS 9.2.2 on the first 8Gb boot partition of several Beige G3s as well as a couple of Wallstreets and the only trouble I have is that sometimes OS 9.2.2 hangs when I open the Startup Disk CP. I restart and the CP opens okay and I can switch to OS X.
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