imac - bondi blue - fresh install not booting

[nigelt]

Ok the story so far
Imac g3 233
20gb harddrive (3 equal partitions)
192mb ram

info thingie
rom revision $77d.45f6
bootrom version 3.0.f2
macOS rom version 3.6


I upgraded the old harddrive to a "new" 20gb harddrive,
I initalised and partitioned the harddrive
then i set about installing os 9.01 on it it all installed fine (apart from a problem with airport?) then i rebooted and got a flashing folder and question mark,
I rebooted using the install cd and everything appeared to be where it should on the harddrive so i set the startup disk in the control panel,

when that didn't work i tried
resetting the pram thing
----re-install the whole shooting box

after about an hour i got grumpy and installed osX v10 on the harddrive in addition to os9, and the exact same thing happened, it installed fine but after reboot i get the flashing question mark thing

Updating firmware has been suggested, BUT when I installed osX it didn't protest about so i assume it was OK

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Macmadant]

you are supposed to upgrage firmware to latest when, upgrading to osx, or it could reck your machine apparently

 

[nigelt]

I know that now

Ok false alarm misread the harddrive jumper now its booting OK,

How do i tell my firmware version as os9 isn't installed, well it is but it's os9.0 and i can't boot into it

 

[bigwreck]

8GB Max size

Im pretty sure I had the same issue years ago. The boot partition shouldnt be bigger than 8GB.