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I've just double-checked and the original post was not on April the 1st ;)
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OK so to answer the question @caver01 I setup a VM as I did not want to mess with my already working 7 OS system and had 2 partitions: 1 2GB for OS9 and 1 10GB one for 10.4 Tiger.

I used the Tiger DVD to format both partitions / drives (I'm using UTM for virtual Macs here) and made sure that "Install OS9 Drivers" was unchecked. Installed Tiger to the 10GB drive and everything was OK. So far so good....

Then I installed OS9Lives to the 2GB drive and made that the primary drive and saw the floppy with a question mark - which is what I was expecting as I had not installed OS9drivers.

I then took a previously patched ROM using the python script "ataboot.py" this thread is about which I used on a real G4 PowerBook running Tiger which was created using the .hqx option. Based on what you mentioned previously I used stuffit expander to expand the file and replaced the ROM file in the system folder with this new one.

I booted and saw the floppy with the question mark.

So I'm at a dead end again. Does this patch even work? Will someone ever show it working with a tutorial video? Only time will tell ..... ;)

Glad I didn't open my PowerBookG4 up and spend another £18 on a drive just to find this out! ;P
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Does anyone know if Mac OS 9.2.2 can use an external Apple SuperDrive? I want to use some of my old CDs and DVDs from Mac OS 8 & 9 days and would like to access them in Mac OS 9 running on the UTM emulator. But I don't think I had the external SuperDrive back when I was running Mac OS 9 and am not sure if it there were ever drivers for it (or whether the "Apple CD/DVD Driver" extension supported it).
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Wow, robespierre, that's an interesting twist. Never thought of that.
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MacOS9Lives has historically required registration to see attachments, and if you log out you'll see that it still does.

Not only rage quitting, but the other major reason for not allowing post editing is that it is used by spammers. Spammers are smarter than you think: they know how to do a web search (or these days, paste a question to ChatGPT), then submit the mostly-accurate response to a thread, and later come back and edit in a spam link to ClassyMumbaiEscorts after the initial period when mods are less likely to notice. Their goal isn't for this forum's users to see the spam links: any link they manage to get into a high-ranked forum is automatically boosted by the PageRank algorithm. They would just as soon you don't see their spam.

I agree that a 1-day edit window is generally enough to prevent this.
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OK - I've just found out that UTM on the Mac does not allow you to boot from a drive with multiple partitions or at least I can't figure it out. I created a G4 Mac99 machine, booted the Tiger DVD and used disk utility to create two partitions: 1 2GB for OS9 and the rest for Tiger. Tiger installed at about the same speed as my PowerBookG4 which was nice. But on reboot it fails at the OpenBIOS stage. It looks like it's because OpenBIOS is expecting only one partition so it tries to boot from disk:,\\:tbxi and not disk:2,\\:tbxi which Tiger is installed on. I'm assuming it's disk:2 anyway as I can't remember if partitions start from 0 or 1 ;)

I'd issue the boot command to boot from the Tiger partition but UTM OpenBIOS is not allowing my to type at all. So I'm currently looking to see if UTM actually supports HardDrive files which have more than one partition. I may try with two separate disk images and make sure the OS9 one is formatted by Tiger WITHOUT the OS9 drivers.....
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Glad you got it working! And I never knew there was a better version of Drive Setup on the disk image so that's something to remember :) I'm just downloading a copy of Tiger which I'm hoping will work with UTM, the emulator for M1 / M2 etc which is basically a nice front end for Q-EMU. My tiger .dmg will not work but I discovered a .toast version which is said to work. My aim is to emulate things for testing on my M1 MacBook as I don't want to open up my PowerBookG4 again just to insert a blank M2 SSD for testing purposes and so if I can emulate things that's the way to go.

My aim is when it has finished downloading from the Internet Archive (which takes forever) it will let me have a hard disk image which can be partitioned. If so I'm going to use the Tiger CD to partition it with 2 partitions - one for OS9 and one for Tiger - much like you were attempting to do. Then after installing Tiger I'm going to install OS9.2.2 and hopefully get to see a flashing disk with a question mark on it. Then I'll use Tiger to patch the ROM on the OS9 drive as .hqx and use Stuffit expander to expand the new patched ROM and see if OS9 will then boot :)
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Thanks for the command line example. The more techniques we have the better. I do hope someone might be able to push this "driverless" possibility a little further though, but it won't be me. . . I was able to solve my driver dilemma by starting with MacOS9Lives boot CD, only instead of using the Drive Setup that auto-launches, closing that and mounting the disk image .img file used for the restore. . . that image contains a newer version of Drive Setup in the Utilities folder--one that can see and partition larger drives. That worked for me.

I know have a dual boot OS9 and OSX Tiger, though I do have 4 partitions and was considering trying out Sorbet Leopard.
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Ahhh. That makes sense, and explains the differences of observations among the accounts of attempts to use it. Thanks for that insight.
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can confirm this works, OS9, patch first (patch is in the package uploaded)
you need OMS and midi as well as scsi for SMDI connection
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