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Can't boot from OS 9 Partition
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<blockquote data-quote="james4ihl" data-source="post: 47350"><p><strong>Thanks Guys!</strong></p><p></p><p>Thanks for the speedy and knowledgeable responses, people, much appreciated!</p><p></p><p>OK that makes sense about the older tray loading iMacs having a different type of ATA controller which means they need both 'bootable' systems on the first partition - it the only thing that makes sense, since Classic runs fine with the OS 9 on that partition, so it couldn't really be anything to do with the installation being bad. For the record, I did install the OS 9 HD drivers, and updated them, just in case, so it can't be that either.</p><p></p><p>It is kind of annoying though, because where you have to limit the first partition on those older machines to 7.9 GB, by the time you've installed OS x/9 and any serious amounts of apps. you're running seriously low on space in that first partition. I'm now a little conflicted about whether to re-install and have the ability to boot into OS 9, or whether to leave it partitioned and just run the apps from Classic. They do run, but they're a little slow since we're talking fairly hungry apps like photoshop and director... anyway...</p><p></p><p>Did someone mention moving the User folder to another partition? How does that work? Anyone know if it would work if I installed just the system software to the first partition and then all the Apps to the second partition (which would be a much better usage of overall disk space) - or do the installers need to write files to the system folders during installation and get confused?</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p><p>James</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="james4ihl, post: 47350"] [b]Thanks Guys![/b] Thanks for the speedy and knowledgeable responses, people, much appreciated! OK that makes sense about the older tray loading iMacs having a different type of ATA controller which means they need both 'bootable' systems on the first partition - it the only thing that makes sense, since Classic runs fine with the OS 9 on that partition, so it couldn't really be anything to do with the installation being bad. For the record, I did install the OS 9 HD drivers, and updated them, just in case, so it can't be that either. It is kind of annoying though, because where you have to limit the first partition on those older machines to 7.9 GB, by the time you've installed OS x/9 and any serious amounts of apps. you're running seriously low on space in that first partition. I'm now a little conflicted about whether to re-install and have the ability to boot into OS 9, or whether to leave it partitioned and just run the apps from Classic. They do run, but they're a little slow since we're talking fairly hungry apps like photoshop and director... anyway... Did someone mention moving the User folder to another partition? How does that work? Anyone know if it would work if I installed just the system software to the first partition and then all the Apps to the second partition (which would be a much better usage of overall disk space) - or do the installers need to write files to the system folders during installation and get confused? Cheers James [/QUOTE]
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