[G4] OS 9.2 not running under OS 10.2

[Joseph W. Chance]

I just found this out last night from Applecare.  It depends upon what 
machine you are using.  The newer the machine, the less likely that it 
will boot with an older OS 9 system.  For example, my 667 MHz powerbook 
will boot from any of the earlier versions of 9.  My newer 1 GHz 
powerbook will ONLY boot from a 9.2.2 install CD.  Apple no longer puts 
the boot ROM into the machine to be able to boot from anything less.  
This means that my older versions of Norton, Techtool, Diskwarrior, etc 
are worthless for this machine unless I get newer versions.  I found 
this out because I needed to repair a bad directory and could not do it 
in OS X.  I needed to boot from a CD in 9 and had a devil of a time 
finding one that would work on this machine.


On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 10:01 PM, abe magallanez wrote:

> If I use 9.2 as start up disk , the system and my app work fine. It is 
> just when I try to access it with 10.2.5 .
> I use iTunes to manage my music, but I have not tried download from it.
> Abe