On May 29, 2010, at 6:25 AM, Stewie de Young wrote: > > > > Mine was a MDD Dual-1 GHz and now is a Dual-1.42 GHz. Works like a charm. > > > > > > Even though Mac OS 9 should still be bootable (has nothing to do with the > > > processors, rather with the firmware on the logic board) – I was not able > > > to > > > test it. I had a version of Mac OS 9 that was incompatible with the MDD – > > > I > > > got my MDD used without the original discs… > > > > > > > > I found that the booting problem on the MDD was fixed with a special system > > ROM that came in the original machine, just swap it out and it boots. > > > > John Carmonne > > I have a dual 1.42 that was upgraded from a dual 1.0 GHz but I also changed > the original logicboard to the FW800 one as well. > You're saying that if I swap the ROM file for one like yours, I would be able > to boot OS9 on my machine as well ? > > Stewie > No I don't think the FW 800 MB will boot 9. I was refering to the G4 MDD FW 400 booting OS 9 installed from a installation disk. The OS 9 that came on the MDDs had a special ROM and also had to be on a 200 GB or smaller HDD or partition. But you may try it, strange thing do happen if you mess around a little
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