First of all a disclaimer, I'm a PC guy who has recently gotten himself into supporting Macs (more specifically Mac OS X, which I am extremely impressed with). So forgive some of my Mac 'ignance.
The system I’m working with is a newer iBook (heh, I don't know the processor speed -_-;, it has 128MB of ram, dvd support).
I am trying to Dual Boot OS X and OS 9. To accomplish this I am setting them up on their own separate partitions (that way my client has the ability to just hold down the option key and boot-it old school).
I booted off the OS X CD, got into disk manager and setup my partitions. I understand that OS 9 must go on the primary partition for it to boot correctly. I have tried the following partition schemes:
[01]Macintosh Extended [02] Unix
[01]Macintosh Standard [02]Unix
[01]Macintosh Extended[02]Free Space
[01]Macintosh Standard[02]Free Space
No matter what partition config I try, when I boot off the OS 9.1 CD it gets to the screen that says "Mac OS 9.1" and has all those CD's in the background and the status says "Starting Up..."; then I get the bomb error:
"Sorry, a system error has occurred."
" bus error"
"To temporarily turn off extensions, restarted and hold down the shift key."
Restarting with extensions off does not help either.
I'm pretty sure this is not a hardware issue, as when I re-setup the partition scheme and install OS X on the primary it installs without any problem.
So, any thoughts? Do I need OS 9.2 install CD instead of 9.1? Is my partitioning incorrect? I have been unable to find a really comprehensive document that answers all my questions in terms of partitioning and install-what-in-what-order for this kind of setup.
Thanks in advance,
Ian
