I have a B&W G3 on which I have been running OS X server (actually since 1.2). It's been running fine under 10.0.4, with 9.2.1 on the MacOS partition. I finally managed to get the 10.1 upgrade disks from Apple, and upgraded; OS X server (now 10.1) still runs fine, but I discover that nothing I can (think of to) do will allow me to reboot into OS 9.2.1.
Obviously, I've tried setting thOS 9 partition as the startup with StartupDisk in System Preferences. It shows up there, and I select it, and reboot (either immediately or after saving the preferences and then rebooting from the finder). When it starts up I see the question-mark folder flash a few times, and then it happily boots...into OS X server. I tried booting with the option key pressed, which ought to give me a choice of boot partitions, but doesn't. Same result as above.
Calssic works fine, by the way. I can start it up and run classic applications, where the OS 9 partition I can't boot from is the one Classic is running from.
Hardware notes: this B&W G3 was originally a 450 MHz and has had the CPU replaced with a 500 MHz card (with the xlr8 drivers in the MacOS system folder). It's a SCSI machine, with three drives in it: the original 9 Gb IBM, which has the two operating partitions for OS 9 and OS X, and two 9 Gb Seagates. The OS X disk utility can only see the IBM - the seagates need to be re-initialized, which I would like to do with OS 9's drive setup (but I can't get to it), using them as a RAID array.
Thus far, things are the same now as they were when the machine was happily running 10.0.4.
Before upgrading to 10.1, I replaced the original internal ZIP with an Iomega ZIP 250 (which seems to work fine). I also replaced the original CD-ROM drive with a QPS 24/10/40 CD-RW drive, a drive which is recognized under 10.1 (and also under 9.2.1, with the latest authoring support), but not under earlier versions. When I installed these, I was perfectly able to see and use them from 9.2.1.
OK, two questions:
a) why can't I get the machine to boot from the OS 9 partition?
b) why can't I see the two seagate drives from the OS X disk utility, so as to re-format them? They have various linux, BeOS, and other partitions on them, and I can certainly see why I can't mount them, but I should be able to see them....they don't show up in System Profiler any more, though they used to under 10.0.4
Help would be reatly appreciated....
--Steve Anderson
<stephen.anderson@yale.edu>
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