Hi all,
I sought to dual-boot OS 9 and Leopard using the MacOS9Lives ISO image on one partition. Both operating systems installed successfully and I was able to get OS 9 to work, but upon installing Leopard the Startup Disk preference pane failed to detect OS 9.
Using Open Firmware I manually booted the Mac OS ROM. While OS 9 displayed the Happy Mac, it otherwise could not go on further. After restarting again, Leopard seemed to hang after attempting to terminate IOUSBCompositeDevice (which is odd considering it appeared even without any USB devices plugged). While it does not kernel panic, using verbose mode Leopard claims it is "Still waiting for root device".
My guess is that the installation of Leopard removed the OS 9 Disk Drivers (as the option to enable those drivers was hidden due to OS 9 never being officially supported on the G4 mini), but that still does not explain why Leopard fails to boot. Also of note is that before initiating the Leopard installation, I manually converted the volume from HFS+ to HFS+ (Journaled). Should I attempt reinstalling OS 9 and Leopard without enabling journaling? Or perhaps I could try dual-booting OS 9 and Tiger followed by upgrading to Leopard.
I sought to dual-boot OS 9 and Leopard using the MacOS9Lives ISO image on one partition. Both operating systems installed successfully and I was able to get OS 9 to work, but upon installing Leopard the Startup Disk preference pane failed to detect OS 9.
Using Open Firmware I manually booted the Mac OS ROM. While OS 9 displayed the Happy Mac, it otherwise could not go on further. After restarting again, Leopard seemed to hang after attempting to terminate IOUSBCompositeDevice (which is odd considering it appeared even without any USB devices plugged). While it does not kernel panic, using verbose mode Leopard claims it is "Still waiting for root device".
My guess is that the installation of Leopard removed the OS 9 Disk Drivers (as the option to enable those drivers was hidden due to OS 9 never being officially supported on the G4 mini), but that still does not explain why Leopard fails to boot. Also of note is that before initiating the Leopard installation, I manually converted the volume from HFS+ to HFS+ (Journaled). Should I attempt reinstalling OS 9 and Leopard without enabling journaling? Or perhaps I could try dual-booting OS 9 and Tiger followed by upgrading to Leopard.