In system profiler in OSX 10.4, both drives say they have OS9 drivers installed. I installed OS 9 retail on my old B&W, and have the same retail install cd (Orange 9 on white cd reading 9.2.1) here I first used to install on my old G3.
Paul On Apr 12, 2:10 pm, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 12, 2009, at 10:40 AM, PAR wrote: > > > > > I recently upgraded from a B&W G3 to a Gigabit G4. I moved my three > > partition 60 GB drive over from the B&W to the G4 as a second drive, > > with OSX10.2, OSX 10.3, and OS 9.2.2 installed in that drive. OSX 10.4 > > is installed on the original G4 drive. I can boot to the 10.2 and 10.3 > > partitions fine from OSX 10.4, but booting to 9.2.2 does not work. > > I've tried to reinstall 9.2.2 in its partition on the second drive, > > but a boot from cd does not recognize the partition (or even the > > drive) as installable for 9.2.2. Anyone with any ideas? > > Odds are that partition doesn't have OS 9 drivers installed. In OS X > check System Profiler for that drive (under ATA). There is a field > labeled "OS9 Drivers". If it is "No" then you will need to copy the > contents somewhere, and erase the drive using Disk Utility, making > sure to include the OS 9 Drivers option. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
