Recent content by derekcat

lol.. Side tracked on USB booting.. Indeed it is useful for flash drives, keyboards, mice, printers, etc.. Still, some slot-load iMacs refuse to boot USB 1 [i distinctly remember trying] and it takes an unholy amount of time.. ugh.. the orig/350Mhz SL iMacs.. Leaving FW off of those was a...

Yea, pretty weird.. >_< I'll try booting off an OS X CD tomorrow. Hmm... Maybe it was just USB 1 machines.. Been a while since I've messed with that. USB is just a terrible hard drive interface anyway though.

oops must've gotten lost in my giant blog of text.. It's not this specific machine's original optical drive but it is an Apple-shipped CD/RW drive that I pulled from another DA I have [it even has that stupid aluminum tape holding it in from the factory ^_-] The machine does see the OS 9 discs...

The PRAM battery shouldn't do anything for booting.. I did try removing it but I think it's still good anyway. Haven't tried an OS X disc but I imagine it'll work.. The trouble seems to come in at or after open firmware has tried to pass it to OS 9 [the gray bkg folder to light gray bkg...

Hey guys, been a while.. I'm literally stumped. I CAN NOT get this DA G4 [dual 533] to boot OS 9 anymore.. It use to a year ago, but since then it's been running Tiger on an Apple software RAID. I've taken out all of the PCI cards, swapped video cards, tried Discs for: 9.1 [a disc that has...