Hello,

I have installed Macos9lives on my eMac G4 and everything was working fine, except I always had to hold the option key to force boot into os9 instead of osX (I have dual boot).

So I decided to use the command bless from osX to set os9 has the boot volume. It worked and it booted to os9 automatically however now I am getting that message (from the post title) and the Apple menu on the left only has “about this computer”, menu is gone.

I’ve tried dragging the finder + system folder on the desktop and putting those back but it didn’t fix the problem.

Have I ruined the system to the point I need to reinstall it?

Hopefully someone gets back to work on the project... I thought after like 7 years they would have figured out how to get 2 GB of RAM usable. Pretty disappointing that the project seemly stopped like that.

Name me ONE OS7-OS9 application that would benefit from having 2GB of RAM available.

OK… You have confirmed the problem is indeed inside the TV. So, we're back to my first guess. Either the blue bias or drive is out of adjustment. Somewhere inside your TV are Red, green and blue "drive" controls. I have NO idea where exactly since I can't even tell what make or model of TV it is and I probably wouldn't recognize it anyway.

It's impossible for me to really help beyond this from way over here.
Can you even see anything besides blue ever? If not, there could be an entirely different issue.

Good luck.

I have same issue no matter what i connect: Apple TV 1st gen, PS3, PS2
About why i ask this here is because people there might be familiar with crt quirks, due to one of the most popular mac os 9 machine having crt(iMac G3)
About twisting stuff inside: i cut out some plastic to access focus and some other knob on the side using non conductive screwdriver

Ignoring for a moment why you would be asking such a question on this forum…

I happen to have some background in CRT video. Your TV has what are called "bias" or "screen" controls. One for each of the three colors. It would appear (as if one could say with certainty from here) that the blue is out of adjustment.

THAT IS ONLY A FIRST GUESS AND NOT THE ONLY POSSIBLE ISSUE. I do NOT, repeat NOT recommend you start sticking your hand inside that old thing and begin twisting stuff around. There's at least a 90% chance you will get knocked on your butt.

It's also possible that your game console has a color problem. You should start by eliminating that possibility by testing the console with a different TV and/or a different source with the TV.
Maybe you have an old VCR or something that will connect to the TV to check the picture or even an digital–to–analog TV converter box.

I couldn't compress the image because these are quite old and i won't be able to find them again

I have 14 inch TV and it has issue of blue colour dominating the image, causing black to be blue etc and it's really annoying

Reference:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-install-macos9-on-unsupported-imac-g4-using-fw.2471707/?post=34302529#post-34302529

If you're having so much trouble with booting off of your Firewire drive, wouldn't it make sense to just buy a blank CD? I'm not saying you couldn't get the Firewire setup to work (so maybe you find my post unhelpful), but blank CDs are about 20 cents in the United States when bought in bulk. I don't know where you're posting from but surely they're not much more than that anywhere else... Maybe you could save yourself a lot of time and headache by just biting the bullet.

Hopefully someone gets back to work on the project... I thought after like 7 years they would have figured out how to get 2 GB of RAM usable. Pretty disappointing that the project seemly stopped like that.