Charles Davis writes,
<Yeah!!!! what you just said. BUT, multiple partitions will allow for
multiple instances of 'blessed' OS9 systems. "Opt/alt startup" will
show as many systems as are bootable. I.E. it doesn't just look at
one partition..>
Exactly -- it looks at a HD that has multiple partitions with blessed
system folders as multiple separate bootable HDs.
Which is why I don't NEED to make multiple partitions on Nucleolus (my 20
GB HD which I want devoted to OS 9) -- sure I could have made them if I
wanted them, but I don't want them. All I need to have on that drive is a
bootable version of OS 9 (blessed by virtue of it being freshly installed
from the CD, or if I were to bless a copy myself using techniques
discussed earlier in this thread) -- at least, theoretically.
After TWO nuke-and-paves/attempted reinstallations of OS 9.2.2 with
Nucleolus -- AND ZAPPING THE PRAM TOO! -- the only progress I've made in
restoring my ability to boot my G4 in OS 9 is that now, when I do an
Option-Restart, Nucleolus once again shows up as a bootable OS 9 drive.
However, when I select it and tell it to boot in 9, it boots, pops up the
Setup Assistant and instantly freezes up on me. So I'm still stuck unable
to actually use OS 9.
Yes, I installed from a "correct" installation CD -- the 9.2.2 one that
came with my Quicksilver from the original pack of system disks -- and
which I was able to confirm at the Apple site as being the right one to
use. I'll also mention that a suggestion I got to try with an 'older' OS
9 install CD and upgrade to 9.2.2 with the Apple updates, all of which I
do have, would have also worked for this machine, according to what I saw
on Apple's site, but hey, why bother with a 9.1 or 9.2.1 install plus
update(s) to bring me to 9.2.2 when I already have a direct install of
9.2.2 on a CD that came with the machine?
My two installation attempts were different, and as the result of them I
actually do have two OS 9 system folders now -- one solely to run Classic
with (I moved it over to Nucleus, my OS X HD), and one on Nucleolus which
I intended to be my OS 9 boot drive.
This first installation (the one which is now on Nucleus, running Classic
as we speak) -- I had performed it booted in Tiger. In Tiger, I used Disk
Utility to nuke Nucleolus with write-zeroes erase, then I popped the
Quicksilver's OS 9 CD in and installed. With this attempt, Nucleolus did
not appear in the Option-Restart screen as a choice of boot disks. I then
booted the Mac in Tiger and in System Preferences, chose that System
Folder to run Classic, then moved it over to Nucleus.
Second installation -- wiped Nucleolus again, same type of erasure from
Tiger with Disk Utility, but then shut down the Mac, booted from the OS 9
installation CD and installed from there. When installation was complete,
I went straight to Option-Restart -- then lo and behold, right next to
Nucleus OS X and the installation CD, there was Nucleolus, offering
itself up as a potential boot drive, with the nice OS 9 icon on it
smiling at me. I selected it. It booted OS 9, presented me with the Setup
Assistant (which I expected, since this was a "new" installation), and
I'm sitting there for three or four minutes waiting for it to "gather the
information" it needs to begin asking me questions, and then I finally
notice that not only is this taking way too long, but the hands on the
little wristwatch aren't moving, and, the system clock was now three
minutes behind the clock in this room (when OS 9's desktop first came up,
I'd checked, they both read the same thing). I gave it another minute,
then figured it had frozen, so I shut down "nerve pinch" style, rebooted
in Tiger, removed the OS 9 install CD, and tried another Option-Restart
from there. Both Nucleus (OS X) and Nucleolus (OS 9) showed up as
choices, I chose Nucleolus, but again -- it booted in 9, presented me
with the setup assistant, and froze again.
I shui down the Mac ("nerve pinch"), and then I zapped the PRAM (details
in the "cmd-opt-p-r" thread LOL). After zapping the PRAM, the machine
came up in Tiger (that's the startup disk I set in System Preferences) --
but a PRAM zap affects the WHOLE MACHINE, doesn't it? So after it comes
back up, time for another Option-Restart. Both HDs show up, I choose
Nucleolus, again it boots up 9 for me -- and again it freezes as soon as
it gets there.
So, now that I had a good night's sleep and my morning coffee, there's
one more thing I'm thinking, but I have to Google to refresh my memory --
booting into Open Firmware. I vaguely remember (from the Beige) that once
you do it (by holding down cmd-opt-O-F with the power key, or for me now,
button on the tower), you type in a command "reset-vram" or something
like that, but I don't remember exactly what it does (and "vram" kind of
sounds like a video thing -- isn't that video RAM? and what would that
have to do with fixing OS 9?) or why I had to do it a couple of times on
the Beige. I'm sure some link I find at Google will both help me remember
why I did that on the Beige, as well as tell me if it has anything to do
with an OS 9 freeze situation.
This machine is supposed to both run Classic from OS X AND be dual
bootable in OS 9 -- the G4 Quicksilver 867 specs say so (I checked
again), and I was doing it myself on this very same machine for two
freakin' years! There is no reason why this should be happening! >:-P
(Yeah, I'm getting more than a bit frustrated!)
Well, maybe I'll have better news later.....
~Yersinia.
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