On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:40 PM, 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?
When you use the "Option" key boot at startup is the OS 9 partition offered as bootable? If you hold the "9" key at startup it should also boot any bootable OS 9 system. If neither of these work, it could possibly be the OS 9 system is missing something for the System file (the equivalent of an old "enabler" which is now inside the System file), this is a problem with the MDD, but I never heard of the Gigabit needing anything special. There's also the issue of whether the OS 9 system is "blessed". When you look at the OS 9 System folder while booted in OS X it should have a "9" on the folder as an icon if the system is blessed properly, and if it is NOT blessed, it will be a plain, generic folder. If it's not blessed, you'll need to get it blessed. Sometimes that's as simple as dragging the System file and Finder file outside the System folder and then dropping them back in again. Otherwise, you may need to look up instructions for blessing an OS 9 system. Also, the fact that the whole HD isn't shown in the OS 9 installer CD seems to indicate a real issue with either having the correct OS 9 drivers, or perhaps a jumper conflict when you transfered the HD? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
