> Does the 8gb hard drive limit for the first partition apply to Mac OS9
> as well as Mac OSX?

No

> I had been under the belief that it only applied
> to X, but when I partitioned my tray loading iMac's  40 GB drive into
> 7.5 gb for the first partition and the rest of the hard drive for the
> second partition and then installed 10.3 on the first partition and 9
> on the second partition, I'm dropped into firmware every time I try to
> boot into the 9 partition.  The only way I can get out of it is to boot
> onto the Panther install disk and change the startup disk back to 10.3.
>   OSX works just fine.

You have something wrong. I have done this on a 233 without any problems.

Jim


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