[shifuimam]

Yep, it's me again, with my ancient computers and ancient operating systems. Whatever.

My modded clamshell has decided to stop booting its OS 9 volume. I have partitions for OS X, OS 9, and a third partition for all my data and files and stuff. Used to work fine. The Startup Disk pref pane sees my OS 9 volume. Open Firmware, however, does not. If I opt-boot, all I see is my OS X volume. If I select the OS 9 volume in the Startup Disk pref pane in OS X, the machine reboots to the flashing folder question mark icon and eventually boots into OS X.

I can boot OS 9 on the machine using my Pismo PowerBook in target disk mode.

I've tried blessing the OS 9 volume using this command:


<pre>bless --folder9 "/Volumes/Mac OS 9/System Folder" --bootBlockFile</pre>

OF still does not see the volume.

Ideas?

[ibook_steve]

Dying hard drive perhaps? If nothing has changed, there's no reason for it to stop working.

Steve

[shifuimam]

I'm not at all sure what happened.

I ended up putting the clamshell in target disk mode and used OS 9 on my Pismo to re-bless the system folder by just opening it in the Finder. Did the same thing to my OS 9 partitions on my recovery hard drive, and everything's good.

The only thing that doesn't work is that my clamshell will not recognize the original OEM iBook restore/recovery CDs, but that may be because it's got an OF mod that makes it appear as a PowerBook (for the XGA hack to work).

[Spheric Harlot]

In the olden days, you'd drag the Finder out of the System Folder. Then back in.

The OS would automatically bless a folder that contained both the system suitcase and a Finder.