I am puzzled by the references to the <8GB spectre. Ryoohki is writing about OS 9.2.2, having suspended his use of the formerly installed 10.2.5. I'll not deny that the limit could exist for OS 9, but I have never met it in my Beige G3s running as G4s with OS 9.2.2, nor heard of it before. Given the presence of a rev. C ROM ($77D.45F2 in ASP), the behaviour strikes me as more like the result of a shot SDRAM DIMM, shot RAM slot, shot PMMU, or random AOG rather than a partition-size constraint. Easily tested, however, by partitioning the WD into 7.8GB (genuine) and The Rest 10.8GB and installing OS 9.2.2 anew (rather than from a copy or a clone of the present installation) in both partitions.

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