Mac OS 9 Blessing Conundrum

[mryingster]

I have a Mac OS 9 installation on my PPC Mac Mini. I cloned it from an old HDD which was booting. After cloning, it is my understanding that it needs to be blessed before it can boot.

In order to bless it, I've booted off the OS 9 installation disk. The problem though is that the mouse is not working. The mouse will move left, right and down, but not up, so it is stuck at the bottom of the screen after moving it a little.

I don't understand how in the world that is happening, but aside from that, is there some way I can bless the OS using the keyboard rather than using the mouse to drag the system file out and into the system folder? If I remember correctly, Mac OS 9 didn't have the copy/cut/paste commands for files in the finder.

For further context, this is all using Ross's Mac Mini OS9 CD.

Thanks, knowledgeable PPC people!

 

[DearthnVader]

I have a Mac OS 9 installation on my PPC Mac Mini. I cloned it from an old HDD which was booting. After cloning, it is my understanding that it needs to be blessed before it can boot.

In order to bless it, I've booted off the OS 9 installation disk. The problem though is that the mouse is not working. The mouse will move left, right and down, but not up, so it is stuck at the bottom of the screen after moving it a little.

I don't understand how in the world that is happening, but aside from that, is there some way I can bless the OS using the keyboard rather than using the mouse to drag the system file out and into the system folder? If I remember correctly, Mac OS 9 didn't have the copy/cut/paste commands for files in the finder.

For further context, this is all using Ross's Mac Mini OS9 CD.

Thanks, knowledgeable PPC people!

There was a mouse bug related to the ATI Radeon 9200 graphics driver I hacked, but it made the mouse stick at the top left of the screen and it would not move at all.

I think that was fixed and added to the later CD's made by Ross, so check you have the latest version.

You can also use the bless command from OS X to bless the OS 9 system folder so such for that.

 

[domleg]

Hi,

Had the same problem, it seems that there is an issue with a third party mouse extension. Try holding "Shift" during the system startup to disable extensions, that should help.

Let me know if it's still not booting after the blessing, there's a few more things that might be useful.

 

[mryingster]

Hi,

Had the same problem, it seems that there is an issue with a third party mouse extension. Try holding "Shift" during the system startup to disable extensions, that should help.

Let me know if it's still not booting after the blessing, there's a few more things that might be useful.

Sure enough, disabling extensions did the trick! Thanks.

I also found another potential solution. When in OS X, it's possible to run the OS 9 Finder as an application under classic. You have to use ResEdit to change the TYPE code to 'APPL' and the CREATOR code to something else. I was able to bless the OS 9 system folder doing this, alas it hung during boot so something else is wrong. Going to wipe the disk and try again...

There was a mouse bug related to the ATI Radeon 9200 graphics driver I hacked, but it made the mouse stick at the top left of the screen and it would not move at all.

I think that was fixed and added to the later CD's made by Ross, so check you have the latest version.

You can also use the bless command from OS X to bless the OS 9 system folder so such for that.

Interesting. Sounds slightly different unfortunately. I did verify that I have the latest disk, but still doing the weird mouse thing.