Hi,
I’m so glad you asked I was beginning to give up hope! Here’s what’s happened:
- PowerBook G4 12” 1GHz model 6,2 1.5GB/150GB had
- won’t boot from macintosh garden 9.2.2 universal iso burnt to CD (this CD will boot my Lombard G3 so I know it works)
- can boot from Panther 10.3 CD and run Disk Utility: no mention of OS 9 drivers anywhere
- OS9 CD doesn’t show in Startup Disk or on boot loader when you hold down option on startup
- after much digging on here and on thinkclassic.org (iMic’s thread) I tried booting into open firmware and issuing the commands to spoof the model shown here
http://www.thinkclassic.org/viewtopic.php?id=46&p=2- if I do this, and then boot with mac-boot command, suddenly the OS9 CD shows up in Startup Disk - progress! However I cannot boot from it.
- after lots of experimentation, I learn that if I boot into OF and do those commands, and then following that (ie without restarting again) boot from the Panther CD and run Disk Utility, suddenly the MacOS 9 disk drivers option appears in Disk Utility - who knew?!
So now I have OS9 disk drivers installed, but I still can’t boot from a Mac OS 9 CD whatever I do. Tonight I managed to download the “Unsupported” CD from this site, burnt it and tried that. Having partitioned my HDD into 2, one with Panther and one for OS9, I tried to use the CD to restore onto the OS9 partition but it failed with a “can’t write to startup disk” error.
My next step is to remove the HDD from my PBG4, fit it into my Lombard, boot from the unsupported CD and install from there, refit the HDD to the PBG4 and see if it works...
Any tips gratefully received!
Joel