Hiya all.
In late May, I ordered myself an iBook G4 from Amazon for $90. I did this because I wanted a PPC Mac to mess around with. It came with Mac OS X 10.5 (latest on PPC Macs.)
I came by this while searching "how to install Mac OS 9 on iBook G4" on Google one day.
I downloaded the Unsupported G4s version of Mac OS 9.22. I burned it to a CD, and put it in the iBook.
I went in Startup Manager. There was 10.5 but the 9.22 CD appeared as well. I tried booting from it but it stayed at a grey screen.
I did a bunch of research. I then found this command to type in OF:
" /cpus/@0" find-package if drop " /cpus/@0" find-device 80010201 encode-int " cpu-version" property then
" /cpus/@1" find-package if drop " /cpus/@1" find-device 80010201 encode-int " cpu-version" property then
device-end \ PLX-OS9-PATCH
I did this command, and booted the CD in OF this time. SUCCESS!
Now that I knew it booted 9 successfully, I didn't want to waste my 10.5 install. (I don't have a 10.5 CD.)
I went back in 10.5 and used SuperDuper! to clone my HD.
Now that's done, I booted back into 9 and initialized the hard disk. I then installed 9.2 successfully, but removed the Multiprocessing extensions.
I will post the results of booting 9 from the hard disk soon.
Raven