Powerbook g3 Bronze Keyboard not booting OS9

#1 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 - 03:25

Hi, I have a Powerbook G3 with the bronze keyboard, a 400mhz processor, and 320mb of RAM. It has OS9 and OS 10.3 on it. Since OSX disagrees with the DVD drive on it(won't let me play DVDs) I want to boot into OS9 to watch a few while I'm away(on vacation right now).

However, it doesn't appear to want to boot to anything other than OSX. I've tried every bootup key I can find, as well as zapping the PRAM(which it doesn't want to do either) and nothing works.

Any help?

#2 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 - 04:55

Try holding down option right after the chime. If that doesn't work, boot off an OS 9 CD and select "OS 9 on [hard drive]" and choose reboot.

#3 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 - 11:32

if its a lombard ( no firewire) its not os X which disagrees with the drive

its harware mpeg decodert only works under os 9

but i bet you knew that already