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We have a client who purchased a 1Ghz eMac with a Superdrive, which will only boot OS X. She needs it to boot directly into OS 9. Classic under OS X is not an option, we've already suggested it and she shot it down. It's in a lab full of older OS 9 booting eMacs and she wants them to be standardized.

I know some people have figured out ways to alter the Open Firmware in other machines that were locked to only boot in OS X, has anyone figured a way to do this with the 1Ghz eMac with a Superdrive (which is the only eMac that won't boot into OS 9)? The only difference between the 3 current eMacs is that one has a Superdrive and won't boot OS 9, while the other two boot OS 9 and have either a CD or a CDRW drive.

thanks!

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This topic has been covered quite a bit on this message board and elsewhere. The short answer is no... It is more than an Open Firmware issue, so there is no easy fix for it; save for Apple to release software to make it happen (which ain't gonna happen, I'm afraid).

Please do a search in the forums for other discussions on this topic .