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Hi all.
I have an old PowerMac G4 MDD (1.25GHz, NOT the FireWire800) that I use to control a SCSI scanner. It came with OSX Jaguar on one hard drive.
I would like to:
- be able to boot to OS9, as some functions of the scanner (color management) were implemented on OS9 but never made it to X (and the manual clearly says that they do NOT work in the classic mode of OSX, only in plain OS9 started at boot-up time)
- upgrade to a later version of OSX (not that important for the moment and not the topic of this question); the scanner driver for OSX works OK in Jaguar (although it may be more or less a beta version) but I am not sure it will work in newer versions of OSX
To achieve these goals, I added another hard drive and reinstalled OSX Jaguar from the restore CDs, onto that second hard drive (I do not want to mess with my working system). I then proceeded to use the 4 restore CDs to reinstall the applications and OS9. I went to the 'startup disk' menu and selected OS9 (on the correct drive..) then went back to 'show all', clicked on 'change', went back to startup drives, reclicked on OS9 and restarted. However, I get the 'blinking question mark on floppy' as if there were no OS.
I went back to the freshly reinstalled OSX (thanks to the other disk, I can avoid using a CD to restore OSX boot), did the rebuilding of the OS9 system folder. I also tried to repair the permissions after booting to the OSX install CD. None of this helps, and I still get the question mark whenever I select OS9.
Does anyone know how to be able to successfully boot to OS9 ?
Classic Mac Os Download
Thanks in advance for the help!
Note: I know about VueScan, which is a solution that is often proposed on various fora. This scanner does NOT work with VueScan, and I confirmed with Mr. Hamrick that he has no intention of ever supporting it (too expensive a scanner at the time of production, thus very few people own one and it would not be profitable).
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If you've encountered a problem with macOS, the solution might be to reinstall the system on your Mac. This can be done by any Mac owner, but it can be a little bit complicated. You'll need to put your Mac into macOS Recovery, which gives you tools to diagnose problems on your Mac, as well as reinstall the operating system.
Here's how to reinstall macOS using Recovery mode.
Entering macOS Recovery
macOS Recovery has tools at its disposal that allow you to diagnose problems with your Mac's hard drive, reinstall macOS, and restore from a Time Machine backup. You can enter Recovery by pressing certain key combinations. The combination you choose will determine which version of macOS will be installed on your system when you select Reinstall macOS.
- Press Command - R to install the latest version of macOS that was installed on your Mac without installing a later version.
- Press Options - Command - R to upgrade to the latest version of macOS that's compatible with your Mac.
- Press Shift - Option - Command - R to install the version of macOS that came with your Mac, or the version closest to it that's still available.
How to check your startup disk with Disk Utility in macOS Recovery mode
The first thing you'll want to do is make sure your Mac's startup disk is healthy. You'll need to use Disk Utility to do that.
- Click Disk Utility when in macOS Recovery.
- Click Continue.
- Click on your Mac's startup drive in the Disk Utility sidebar. It should be the drive at the top of the sidebar if there are multiple drives.
- Click First Aid.
- Click Run. First Aid will run, checking the health of your Mac's drive. This process could take a little while.
- Click Done.
- Click Disk Utility in the Menu bar.
- Click Quit Disk Utility.
How to erase your startup disk in macOS Recovery mode
If you need to start completely fresh, then you'll want to erase your startup disk using Disk Utility. If you want the content on your Mac to stay intact, skip to the next section.
- Click on your startup disk in the Disk Utility sidebar.
- Click Erase.
- Click the Format drop-down menu.
- Click on the format you want to use for your drive. If you're running macOS High Sierra or later on a Mac with an SSD, your choices will be some form of APFS.
- Click Erase. Your drive will proceed to be erased.
How to reinstall macOS while in Recovery mode
The next step is to reinstall macOS.
- Click Reinstall macOS.
- Click Continue.
- Click Continue.
- Click Agree.
- Click Agree.
- Click on the drive on which you wish to install macOS.
- Enter your Apple ID and password if you're asked to, though you might not be.
- Click Install.
Your Mac will now go through the normal macOS installation process, eventually restarting. If you're starting from scratch, you'll need to set up your Mac from scratch.
Questions?
If you have any more questions about reinstalling macOS on your Mac, let us know in the comments.
Updated December 2019: Everything is up to date through macOS Catalina.
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