OS 9 system folder no longer recognized

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Our company is starting the migration to OS X and has purchased 8 of the G4 MDD 1.25 machines. We are moving 8 people to the new machines and in doing so we want to move their existing OS 9 system folders onto the new machines which are running Panther. We are still using Quark 4 and 5 and need to continue dual-booting for the next 3 months until we can get Quark 6 totally installed. Our problem is that after replacing the new OS 9.2.2 system folders on two of the new machines with the old OS 9.2.2 system folders that we've been running they won't boot up in OS 9. We get the blinking question mark. The Start-up control panel recognizes the start-up system and they look blessed in the Finder but they just won't boot into OS 9.2.2. Is this related to some type of Firmware limitation with the MDD 1.25? Anybody know of a workaround we can use? Thanks so much for any help!



P.S. we verified that they can boot into the OS X and the OS 9 that came installed on the computer.



Thanks!

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    graphicumpgraphicump Posts: 82member
    Here's the Apple Technical Doc for re-blessing a system folder (happens if you've moved anything):



    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106426
  • Reply 2 of 3
    master chiefmaster chief Posts: 25member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by GraphicUmp

    Here's the Apple Technical Doc for re-blessing a system folder (happens if you've moved anything):



    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106426





    Thanks - reblessing is the first thing I tried but it still didn't work. The system file is recognized in the start-up disk control panel but it won't boot using that system folder...
  • Reply 3 of 3
    graphicumpgraphicump Posts: 82member
    Have you tried booting from an OS 9 bootable cd, then choosing the system folder as the boot folder in the control panel? Sometimes that's enough to get it to work.



    Also, as mentioned in that article, you have to be using a newer version of the Startup Disk control panel for it to work.
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