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Help! I accidently booted into Mac OS 7 on my iMac G4 out of curiosity!

AppCool88 said:
nothing was working on basiliskII It detected a system 7 system folder and mistook it for an OS 9 system folder, so I click on the OS 7 system folder and pressed reboot, it reboots into OS 7 and it shows a blinking folder with a "?" on it, system 7 came out in 1991 and it did not recognize hard drives it only recognized floppies.
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It's very interesting how you ended up in this situation.

Why do you have Tiger restore media burned on a Memorex disc again? Basilisk II might have done something to the Startup Folders and rendered them unrecognizable to the boot loader if they're not showing up there.

Your OS X optical media should pull up just fine under the boot loader or from holding down 'C' after the tone.
 
Eidorian said:
It's very interesting how you ended up in this situation.

Why do you have Tiger restore media burned on a Memorex disc again? Basilisk II might have done something to the Startup Folders and rendered them unrecognizable to the boot loader if they're not showing up there.

Your OS X optical media should pull up just fine under the boot loader or from holding down 'C' after the tone.
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I bought the G4 on ebay in 2008, it came with a back-up drive, the memorex CD with tiger, and the keyboard and the mouse.
 
also the reason I thought it might be a good idea to boot into OS 7 was because I wanted to play the old mac version of wolfenstein 3D and the mac version of doom 1 and doom 2.
 
right when i tried the tiger media today when this problem occured, I found out it doesnt accept memorex disc.
 
AppCool88 said:
also the reason I thought it might be a good idea to boot into OS 7 was because I wanted to play the old mac version of wolfenstein 3D and the mac version of doom 1 and doom 2.
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You can't boot into System 7 on an iMac G4. If you have a pre-USB 2.0 one you can at least boot back into Mac OS 9.2.1.

Under that you should be able to play those old games without Basilisk II. Maybe even in the Classic desktop environment without rebooting from OS X.

AppCool88 said:
right when i tried the tiger media today when this problem occured, I found out it doesnt accept memorex disc.
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You never tried it before to see if it would boot?
 
Eidorian said:
You can't boot into System 7 on an iMac G4. If you have a pre-USB 2.0 one you can at least boot back into Mac OS 9.2.1.

Under that you should be able to play those old games without Basilisk II. Maybe even in the Classic desktop environment without rebooting from OS X.
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thanks for telling that me how I can play classic games on it, I wish I knew that before trying the whole os 7 thing, I know why it has the blinking question mark its because I was emulating a quadra on basiliskII and it mistook my iMac G4 for a quadra.
 
AppCool88 said:
thanks for telling that me how I can play classic games on it, I wish I knew that before trying the whole os 7 thing, I know why it has the blinking question mark its because I was emulating a quadra on basiliskII and it mistook my iMac G4 for a quadra.
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I'm still a bit perplexed why it rebooted the system though. Was the emulator going to use the Mac OS 9 system folder as a boot volume of some sort or did it really think you could just reboot into System 7 since it mistook the 9 one?
 
Eidorian said:
I'm still a bit perplexed why it rebooted the system though. Was the emulator going to use the Mac OS 9 system folder as a boot volume of some sort or did it really think you could just reboot into System 7 since it mistook the 9 one?
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it wasnt inside the emulator, it detected the OS 7 volume on the startup disk preferences and mistook it for an OS 9 system folder, and it doesnt even show the Mac OS 7 desktop, it just shows the the blinking folder with a "?" on it and since it thinks my G4 is a quadra it doesnt detect hard drives and just detects floppy disk. I think I might have to buy a new comp on ebay :(
 
AppCool88 said:
it wasnt inside the emulator, it detected the OS 7 volume on the startup disk preferences and mistook it for an OS 9 system folder, and it doesnt even show the Mac OS 7 desktop, it just shows the the blinking folder with a "?" on it and since it thinks my G4 is a quadra it doesnt detect hard drives and just detects floppy disk. I think I might have to buy a new comp on ebay :(
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Wait a second have you even turned the physical computer on and off yet? Are you just stuck in a fullscreen emulator that can't find a System 7 startup folder?
 
Eidorian said:
Wait a second have you even turned the physical computer on and off yet? Are you just stuck in a fullscreen emulator that can't find a System 7 startup folder?
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its not a fullscreen emulator, I keep turning the comp off and it still doesnt boot OS X, I might have to post a video of it on google video to explain it. it basicly thinks my computer is a quadra and it doesnt detect the hard drive or CD roms and it only detects floppy disk, its hard to explain so as I said i might post a video of it on google video.
 
AppCool88 said:
its not a fullscreen emulator, I keep turning the comp off and it still doesnt boot OS X, I might have to post a video of it on google video to explain it. it basicly thinks my computer is a quadra and it doesnt detect the hard drive or CD roms and it only detects floppy disk, its hard to explain so as I said i might post a video of it on google video.
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How does Basilisk II get your iMac G4 hardware to think it's a Quadra once the application is closed? It's an emulation environment for the system software.
 
As I was saying, get out your 5.25 drive and get Amiga installs disks ready. We are going on an adventure!
 
AppCool88 said:
system 7 came out in 1991 and it did not recognize hard drives it only recognized floppies.
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Please don't say stuff if you don't know what you're talking about. :( Hard drives have been supported since System 2, and fully supported at 3.2.
 
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