right now the system is in a state of confusion on what to boot to but cant boot to OS 9 cause it lacks the HDD driver and wont be seen from the OS 9 installer as well cause of it (this will not affect OS X's disk utility from seeing it).
i ran into this issue on my DA (of sorts) i removed the 120gb hdd from my AIO and put it into my DA. it had OS 9 installed on it already but will not boot to it on the DA. the DA kept trying to boot to OS 9 when powered up which it would not do it, so i had to restart and hold option when the start chime sounded to select the folder to boot from ( tiger ) and now all is fine.
since the drive worked fine before this, the HDD will be seen in OS X. the only way that it wont if the drive somehow died during this ( but i highly doubt it. all it is is the Mac is confused on what to boot to and it cant boot to OS 9 and it somehow set itself to boot into OS 9 and not OS X during this procedure .
i ran into this issue on my DA (of sorts) i removed the 120gb hdd from my AIO and put it into my DA. it had OS 9 installed on it already but will not boot to it on the DA. the DA kept trying to boot to OS 9 when powered up which it would not do it, so i had to restart and hold option when the start chime sounded to select the folder to boot from ( tiger ) and now all is fine.
since the drive worked fine before this, the HDD will be seen in OS X. the only way that it wont if the drive somehow died during this ( but i highly doubt it. all it is is the Mac is confused on what to boot to and it cant boot to OS 9 and it somehow set itself to boot into OS 9 and not OS X during this procedure .