[G4] Firmware and BootROM

[Ronald Steinke]

On 8 March, 2006, at 4:48:38, nagable at comcast.net wrote:

> The info on Other World Computing website says that I need to boot  
> into OS 9.2 to do the firmware update.  My Quicksilver model will  
> not boot into Classic.

Perhaps you do not have a complete installation of OS-9 to boot to?  
You should have done a clean install of OS-9 after installing OS-X  
and then selected it as your Classic environment provider. That would  
give you an active OS-9 system folder on your drive to boot to.

To get into OS-9 at start up:

Perform a start up with the option button held down until you get a  
screen with all your bootable systems showing as icons. This may take  
more time than your normal start up, so wait patiently until the  
wheel stops spinning.

Select the icon that is named "OS-9" and click on the arrow button.

This should start your QS in OS-9 and let you update the firmware.

After completing the update, shut down, install the new processor  
chip, and restart to enjoy the increase in power.

Have a safe day.