So I snagged my dad's old G4 from a storage unit. It's an M8493 Quicksilver G4 that was originally 733Mhz/128/40GB and had been upgraded to 1GB of RAM and a 1.4GHz G4 from Sonnet. Had been sitting in cobwebs since 2010 or so.
Nobody remembered the old password, so I replaced the old HDD with an ATA/SD card and set about a clean install. Downloaded the 9.2 iso from Archive.org, burned to a DVD-R, and it booted/installed without a hitch. However, I did want to do a dual-boot setup with OS X 10.4, which it was running when I got it.
My issue is that the OS X Tiger DVD isos I've downloaded/burned (also from archive.org) don't appear to be bootable. I can't select them from the startup disk control panel, nor do they boot the machine when pressing 'C'. They don't show up when I hold down 'option' to get the boot menu either. When I try to let the installer reboot from the DVD, it throws a "-2" error. I triple-checked, and they are the PPC version - reviews/comments indicate other people have had them work OK.
Am I missing a "trick" to get those DVD ISOs bootable? (I am just downloading them on my PC and burning them in imgburn.) Or would the OS 9 install have reset some firmware thing I needed to have in order to boot from X again?
Nobody remembered the old password, so I replaced the old HDD with an ATA/SD card and set about a clean install. Downloaded the 9.2 iso from Archive.org, burned to a DVD-R, and it booted/installed without a hitch. However, I did want to do a dual-boot setup with OS X 10.4, which it was running when I got it.
My issue is that the OS X Tiger DVD isos I've downloaded/burned (also from archive.org) don't appear to be bootable. I can't select them from the startup disk control panel, nor do they boot the machine when pressing 'C'. They don't show up when I hold down 'option' to get the boot menu either. When I try to let the installer reboot from the DVD, it throws a "-2" error. I triple-checked, and they are the PPC version - reviews/comments indicate other people have had them work OK.
Am I missing a "trick" to get those DVD ISOs bootable? (I am just downloading them on my PC and burning them in imgburn.) Or would the OS 9 install have reset some firmware thing I needed to have in order to boot from X again?