[G4] Dual Booting

[Mel Krewall]

The current dual-boot machines are earlier versions of the motherboard 
and do not include FireWire 800 ports that the OS X-only MDDs have. 
When Apple introduced new motherboards they did not go back and spend 
money on OS 9 boot compatibility. The OS 9 bootable machines with older 
motherboards were introduced after the G5s came out. I have booted into 
OS 9 only once to do disk repair with an old version of Norton. I have 
yet to find an application that will not run just fine in Classic. That 
said, I'm down to only one application that I run in Classic. My 
migration is almost complete.
Mel

"They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more 
complicated than that."
  ~Gardner Dickinson


On Mar 2, 2004, at 8:23 PM, Simon Briggs wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at 08:37  AM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:
>
>> Dual Boot
>
> I had thought that Apple tried to force all new machines on us as OSX 
> booting only, then backed down after public outcry and reintroduced 
> dual boot machines after a few months, i have an OSX boot only MDD 
> 1.25 DP, and know that after I bought it there were dual boot versions 
> available  again until the G5 showed up.
> I do not know specifics of what models and when but...
>
> Simon
> (I have never needed to boot into OS9 since jumping feet first into 
> OSX.2)
>