Hi guys!
I finally switched my mini G4 1.5GHz to OS 9 but my story is a bit weird (to me …).
Close to the mini, I have an old G4 Yikes to restore to OS 9 too and because I had it before I bought the mini, I started to work on it first.
So I bought a 120GB mSATA SSD with a mSATA/PATA adapter to fit it in the Yikes. Initially, I partitioned it in 3 parts like this with OS9 drivers :
1 - OS9 for Yikes
2 - OS9 for mini
3 - OSX
Before installing OS X, I wanted to get a working OS 9 so I started to try to install OS9 …
Long story short, I finally installed OS 9.2.1 + OS 9.2.2 + ATI January 2005 on the OS9 Yikes partition. This was working like a charm with the ATI 9200 I added in the Yikes instead of the Rage128.
I downloaded the Ross mini install ISO v9 few weeks ago.
Then I received my mini … (I bought it mainly to « play » with it with OS9)
Because I don’t have any blank CD, I decide to restore Ross ISO on the « OS X » partition and put the SSD in the mini to restore OS9 from Ross ISO on the « OS9 mini » partition. Once I did it, I restarted the mini but … after a long searching (folder blinking for a quite long time and finally a happy face), OS9 started … in French !
The thing I didn’t tell you is that I’m french and the OS9 version I installed for the Yikes was a French version …
What I can not explain is that the mini does not want to boot on the « OS9 mini » partition, nor on Ross CD restored on the OS X partition but! OpenFirmware find the hacked ROM from theirs and finally boot on the Yikes OS9 (which does not contains any mini ROM of course).
Apart from that story, I have another mystery to explain … the sourd card …
I know and understand why the internal sound card of the mini is of no use on OS9 so I bought 2 cheap « sound card » on USB on Amazon (why 2 ? because it was cheap, I was 2 différents models and I did not know which one would be work on mini so …).
But I can’t make them working … should I change some USB drivers or something ? If you have an idea … I will share with you some screenshot of System Profiler to explain what I got to work as soon as I can.