I have a B/W, upgraded with an XLR8 G4 zif, which is running from an IDE drive that used to reside in my old Beige G3 desktop. In that previous computer OS X had to be installed on the first drive partition and I had two smaller ones which each had a version of OS 9. All those partitions were bootable in the Beige. Now that this drive has moved to the B/W the OS 9 partitions are not bootable. I have come across the information that the latter G3's require OS 9 to be on the first partition. Luckily the B/W came with a 12Gb IDE drive and I put OS 9 on that, and it is bootable. Recently I purchased a 10000rpm scsi drive and ATTO card (you've read about that experience here ;-) and I managed to get it working almost satisfactorily. I made 2 partitions on the SCSI drive and put a copy of my OS 9.2.2 from the IDE drive there, and Tiger on the second partition. This system 9 runs as Classic under Tiger just fine.
Tiger is bootable, but why this isn't OS 9? Is the above information about which system has to be in the first partition different on IDE vs SCSI drives in the G3 line? I did the boot up from the OS 9 installer disk and remove the system 9 from the system folder on the hard drive, than put it back in trick. Didn't help. Broos -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
