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Test of single partitioned drive
Authored by: Bookman on Mar 21, '02 11:53:38AM

FWIW: My iMac has the factory setup of both Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 on the same partition. From a Mac OS X boot state, I selected Restart and held down the 'C' key. My system booted back into Mac OS X. Oh well. (BTW, ARE there any other methods for using the keyboard to bypass the Startup Disk CP/SPP and boot into Mac OS 9?)

One other question: Is it a fallacy that Mac OS X has to be on the first physical partion of a multiple-partitioned drive? The original poster had a setup with Mac OS 9 on the first partition.



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Test of single partitioned drive
Authored by: vaalrus on Mar 21, '02 12:12:58PM

A slight mis-understanding. The rule is that the MacOS X partition must be wholly within the first 8GB of the drive. Partition order is non-relevant.

After much long-distance and second hand troubleshooting, these rules also appear to be enforced for the original Bondi iMacs. At least the Rev. A models. What is even weirder is that the secondary Mac OS 9 partition had to be within the first 8GB as well, which caused no end of fuss. (but then, this iMac does have a Formac SCSI card, and a Newer 466Mhz upgrade...)



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Test of single partitioned drive
Authored by: Monkey Angst on Mar 21, '02 12:20:51PM

No, the actual rule is that the partition that contains OS X must be entirely contained in the first 8GB of the disk, only on the following machines:

PowerBook G3 Wallstreet
Power Macintosh G3 (All beige models, but not blue and white)
Rev A, B, C, or D iMac

All other machines can have the OS X partition wherever you like.



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Partioning scheme on
Authored by: ihafro on Mar 21, '02 01:34:03PM

Now someone tell me if I'm wrong on this..........

This problem doesn't seem to affect "unsupported" machines.I have a Umax S900 partitioned so:

14 GB >MacOS X
5 GB >MacOS 9.1 (for booting this machine into 9)
1 GB >MacOS 9.2.2 (Blue box only)

I haven't had any problems. Just thought some people who have these older machines would like to know.



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