Enabling a volume for Classic

Aug 28, '01 09:29:00PM

Contributed by: robg

I recently bought a new hard drive, and wanted to install another copy of OS X on it. I figured I would just take my "Classic OS 9" and copy it from my current drive to the new drive. I did this while booted in OS X, and it copied over just fine. When I went to the "Classic" system prefs panel, however, I could not select the OS 9 I had just created - the volume was greyed out, as though there were no allowable system on that drive.

I could have rebooted into OS 9 on that disk and then back into OS X, but that seemed like too much work. Instead, I switched to the Startup Disk prefs panel. When I did that, the panel started the drive scan it always does to find bootable volumes ... and it noticed my new OS 9 folder on the new drive, and listed it as an avaialble startup disk.

I then went back to the Classic panel and was able to pick that same OS 9 as my Classic volume. Somehow running the Startup Disk panel 'blessed' the new OS folder I had copied, saving me a couple of restarts.

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