[bluedog]

I've looked online and not found an answer to this problem I'm having.

Recently we purchased a Mirror Door PowerMac 1.25GHz, it came with OSX preinstalled and had 10.3 disks (software restore disks) in it. I was surprised they were included, and thought I would have to do the software-up-to-date program.

In any case, I decided to put a larger drive in the computer and install from the disks. It has an option to install the classic environment and apps. This machine *can* boot into OS9.

My problem is: In OSX, it cannot start the classic environment becuase of an error "Unable to update some resources".

I've tried:
- installing an os9 system from 9.21 retail CD
- putting in a drive from another computer with an OS9.22 system on it.
- tried copying over the network the 9.22 system onto the main OSX system drive and
- tried calling apple technical support

Their solution:
- try to update the drivers with os9 drivers (which I've done on the secondary drive I put into the computer) but don't remember if I did that for the drive with osx on it.
- since their hard drive update utility is specific to some models it would not run on mine, call the manufacturer of the drive (they WONT have an osx driver update for me, I'm sure and tried looking).

I'm not sure if this is really the hard drive firmware issue or something else. Does anyone else know how to get classic running? I CAN boot into the same drive and run OS9 without a problem. Its getting it running in OS9.

[bluedog]

Bump!?

Anyone else having this problem on there machines?

[calumma]

I have seen something similar on my dual 1.25 MDD soon after installing Panther. I posted details on the Apple forum, but after their recent update I cannot find the posts

In my case classic worked one day but not the next. I do not know what caused the problem to manifest. I did determine that the problem was due to some corrupt preference in my user login (a freshly created admin account launched classic without any problem).

I can tell you how I cured the problem. I loaded classic from a different hard drive (firewire). This was successfully updated by Panther with updated files and OS9 apps ran ok. On a whim I then quit classic and relaunched the original System Folder from the Panther partition. It loaded fine. It seems that once classic launched successfully the corrupt preference (if that was what it was) was squished.

I should point out that before this I had tried deleting every classic related plist I could find...

Lee

[bluedog]

Thanks for the suggestions. I can't believe the apple support didn't have me try that by creating a new user!

I'll try and post if it works or not for anyone else who comes up with this issue.

[bluedog]

Thanks for the suggestions. I can't believe the apple support didn't have me try that by creating a new user!

I'll try and post if it works or not for anyone else who comes up with this issue.