I just installed OS 9 Lives on my 2002 iMac G4, 17 inch, 700Mhz. It boots fine, showing a grey screen, then a blinking floppy drive with a question mark, and after a few seconds, OS 9. But only when booting cold. In OS 9, in System Profiler it will show that no startup disk is selected, I can select a Startup Disk in its own control panel, which it will show me as selected in system profiler after, but it can‘t „remember“ my selection beyond a reboot, which does fail (blinking folder with question mark).
Option-clicking in the boot menu doesn‘t change this behaviour, as does changing the startup disk from a 10.4 installer.
Am I missing something trivial here? Or does anyone know how to fix this behaviour?