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My Mac G4 (mirror door) has 4 different operating systems on it: OS 9, 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5. It neatly lets me boot to any of the OS X versions by choosing it in System Preferences > Startup. However, when I just tried to do this with 9, instead of 9 booting up, I just got an icon of a floppy disk with a question mark in the middle of it. OS 9 is definitely in this Mac - the hard disk it's on was inherited from a previous Mac, and OS9 appears as one of the choices in the Startup dialog.
I assume from the icon that it wants me to insert the OS 9 CD, which I have, but I can't open the CD drive door. When I press (and hold) F12 nothing happens.
Is there a key I can press as I boot up the will give me the option to choose other OS's? If not, I may be stuck!
Thanks for your help!
And nice to have but not crucial: is there a way I can make OS 9 boot? Believe it or not there's one app I have that only runs on 9.
Peyton
I assume from the icon that it wants me to insert the OS 9 CD, which I have, but I can't open the CD drive door. When I press (and hold) F12 nothing happens.
Is there a key I can press as I boot up the will give me the option to choose other OS's? If not, I may be stuck!
Thanks for your help!
And nice to have but not crucial: is there a way I can make OS 9 boot? Believe it or not there's one app I have that only runs on 9.
Peyton