I blessed the system folder it recognized it! but it hangs with mouse pointer after startup manager! WhAT.
Bummer.
Hold down the shift key power on machine for boot. This is safe mode. Might help.
Sure the mouse is good? Try the other usb port.
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start up manager shows up nothing. I used classic to make the 9.0.4 installation through my emac. Is classic preventing the eMac to bless the iMac's hard drive?
My guess would have been that the folder would have been "blessed". Besides the command, in classic if you drag some file, main os file, out of system folder then back in should result in bless.
I formatted the iMac hard drive with 10.4.11 I dont know what good intalling 9 drivers to the drive would do, since it doesnt have OS 9 on there anyway.
My understanding is that you need these hidden partitions to boot classic from hd. If formated with classic they are there.
the iMac's CD drive uses some strange proprietary connector, looks similar to an IDE connector, but with more pins, so I can't use any other CD drive.
The extra pins 4 ? are the standard power pins. There probable document somewhere. I once read about them.
I have been experimenting with a USB flash drive and seeing if it will boot from that or not. Due to the USB 1.1 speeds, It seems to be taking forever, I have installed OS 9 on that.
Will read cd after booted. I have not heard of anyone successing with boot off external usb drive with this machine.
When booting, goes to white screen and tries to read the flash drive. The disk acess light seems to be doing something, it turns on and off every 2 seconds, but this is acess not the standby light. What i dont understand is when i took the hard drive out of the computer and put it in my eMac first when i didnt delete everything, stuff was still on it.