Jörg,
I suspect your problem might be a lack of the OS
9 drivers on your hard drive. They are not
installed by default, and without them you can't
access that drive with a system running anything
below X. In Classic, X still handles the disk
access tasks.
Try booting from an OS 9 CD, and see if you can
access the hard drive. If not, that's probably
the cause. Sadly, the only solution is to erase
the drive and install the drivers (from the OS X
installer).
Hope this helps,
Dan
Hi all,
I've installed 9.2.2 on this Rev.A iMac from an original
OS9 CD and did all the upgrades via a CF-card-reader. I'm
running Panther as installed from the original OSX CDs
and don't dare to upgrade because the previous upgrades
(10.3.9 and/or 10.3.6 Combined) left the iMac inoperable.
But now I still can't boot into OS9 even though OSX can
see and use the OS9 partition for Classic.
Is there a special trick to get it to boot in OS9?? When
I select the OS9 partition as startup I get a grey screen
and when I hold down the D-key it boots into 10.3.0. I
remember having seen a folder-icon on another iMac at
startup when a special key (I think it was the D) was
pressed at the beginning so you could choose the startup
disk before the boot process.
On my beige I can use the Option-key to get back to OS9
any time but this doesn't work with the iMac. I guess
it's a XPF feature. But XPF won't run on the iMac.
I tried DIMM First Aid but "this app doesn't run on this
machine". Duh! Need OS9 first.
Does anybody have any more suggestions. I'm getting
pretty frustrated as (a lot of) time goes by...
TIA, Jörg.
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