I believe it's the first 8Gb, and only for Mac OSX. OS9 (which is what
it's running, right?) can still be anywhere on the disk. How did you
get the OS on the 20Gb disk? If you copied it from the old 4Gb disk,
you might try just reinstalling it from scratch. I installed a 10Gb
disk in a Bondi iMac with no difficulty, and it's running 9.2.2 and
10.4.11 flawlessly. You might just try re-installing OS9, and maybe
updating to 9.1 or 9.2 if you can, as they are more stable then 9.0.
Good luck.
-Elliott
On Jul 26, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Gerald Uhlan wrote:
>
> Did you partition the new drive? The OS MUST reside entirely within
> the
> first 4 or 6 GB (I forget which) of physical disc space.
>
> On 7/25/09 8:12 PM, "Aaron Parker" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I got a steal on an original Bondi Blue iMac G3 last week for $20 and
>> have been loving playing around with OS 9. It's been working
>> perfectly fine for the last week or so--no issues whatsoever.
>>
>> The 4GB hard drive was a little tight though, so I opted to throw an
>> extra 20GB drive in there this afternoon that I had lying around.
>> The
>> install was a piece of cake. Unfortunately, I'm now having some very
>> odd video issues.
>>
>> After reassembling the computer, it fires up fine the first time. I
>> get the startup tone, normal video, and the computer boots up just
>> fine (I even got OS9 put back on after this initial boot).
>> Unfortunately, that's where the problems start. As soon as you shut
>> the machine down and restart, you then lose video until you manually
>> reset the PRAM and press the CUDA reset button on the mainboard.
>>
>> I've reproduced this exact scenario at least 3 times now and it works
>> the same way every time--reset the PRAM, reset the CUDA, machine
>> powers on normally, restart--no video. I'm still getting the startup
>> sound and it sounds as if the computer is booting up normally even
>> when I don't get video (lots of HD activity), it's just that I'm
>> getting a completely blank screen (with an amber light).
>>
>> Any ideas? Would a bad PRAM battery cause such issues? The
>> likelihood that it would just so happen to manifest itself after my
>> upgrade is suspect to me though.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Aaron
>
>
>
> >
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