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Booting Mac Os 9 on 1 Ghz 17" Powerbook G4 a "preliminary study"

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mrhappy:
So I fired it up with the fancy OS9 Unsupported disc from ext USB! Was able to change screen resolution around and DVD drive is able to transfer files but couldn't get it to play a movie or audio CD.

Was using a bare 640GB 2.5" through a 'universal drive adapter'...
'Drive Set Up' wouldn't recognize it so I wound up partitioning it on a G4 500DP with 'Silver Lining Pro 6.4.9(?) into 5 partitions...

Installed the Unsupported OS to a partition on the 640 while still plugged into the 500DP... It took 3-4 tries before it made it all the way!

After successful OS9 installation I plugged the whole 640/universal drive adapter mess into to the PowerBook and started (holding down option key)... selected the 'new' OS9 drive and it fired right up! YEEHAA!!!!! ;D ;D

Didn't get a chance to do much testing yet but I'll report back after I put the OS9 drive into the PowerBook. 

devils_advisor:
well done

mrhappy:
Shortly after I posted I started thinking about swapping drives in the PB... then I realized...Duh!?!... the 640GB drive was SATA!... anyway the only 2.5" IDE drive that I had on the shelf was known to be somewhat 'squirrely'... gave it a shot... popped it into a portable firewire box and installed 'Unsupported OS9' the same way. Seemed to go easier this time, however at clicking 'OK' at the 'Installation successful' message, I got a system bomb!  :o

Plugged the Firewire drive into the PB and "option" started with the OS9 firewire and it worked again, booting the PB into OS9. Weird thing was that I had no 'top row' menus ... just the 'OS9 Lives' icon, the OS X drive icon and the trash bucket! Changed the screen resolution and restarted, after which I had all the menus back.

Dismantled the PB and installed the OS9 drive but only got the 'blinking ?'... took it back apart and reseated everything but got the same result. :-\

Wound up putting the OS X drive back in the PB just to make sure that it still worked and that fired right up.

Sooo... I'm thinking I need to try again with a fresh drive. I'll put the 'flakey' OS 9 drive back into the firewire box and see if it still boots the PB.

 

supernova777:
watch out for those squirelly drives  8)

mrhappy:
Yeah, they get you every time!! Well at least I got a lot of practice taking the PB apart!! ::)

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