lol.. Side tracked on USB booting..
Indeed it is useful for flash drives, keyboards, mice, printers, etc.. Still, some slot-load iMacs refuse to boot USB 1 [i distinctly remember trying] and it takes an unholy amount of time..
ugh.. the orig/350Mhz SL iMacs.. Leaving FW off of those was a huge mistake >_< That was during the greatest surge of firewire devices... Yea I know - cost
lol USB NuBus cards would be awesome
Anyway! Good news!
The machine does boot off of OS X discs... And I tried it in the other DA I had around and the OS 9 discs wouldn't boot it either... Meaning the iMac OS 9.2.2 discs [version 1.0 and 2.0] must've been mislabeled >_< [supposedly iMac 9.2.2 1.0 and 2.0... But at least the 1.0 disc must be labeled wrong - the 9.2.2 gray factory stamped disc from my Dad's old 700Mhz works for everything.. I think I need to image it and delete whatever one is saved on the DA's mirror volume..]
So! Downloaded a 9.2.1 iso, and both DAs booted right up! [Also the creator of the iso was kind enough to include a bunch of utilities: stuffit expander, resedit, USB overdrive, etc]
Still doesn't explain why my retail 9.2.1 disc and boot tested 9.1 discs didn't work.. But it's really a non-issue now ^_^
[Oh, there was one extra problem after it started booting... Whatever Nvidia AGP card I had in the DA didn't like OS 9 for some reason, though I could swear it was originally from a DA..]
Indeed it is useful for flash drives, keyboards, mice, printers, etc.. Still, some slot-load iMacs refuse to boot USB 1 [i distinctly remember trying] and it takes an unholy amount of time..
ugh.. the orig/350Mhz SL iMacs.. Leaving FW off of those was a huge mistake >_< That was during the greatest surge of firewire devices... Yea I know - cost
lol USB NuBus cards would be awesome
Anyway! Good news!
The machine does boot off of OS X discs... And I tried it in the other DA I had around and the OS 9 discs wouldn't boot it either... Meaning the iMac OS 9.2.2 discs [version 1.0 and 2.0] must've been mislabeled >_< [supposedly iMac 9.2.2 1.0 and 2.0... But at least the 1.0 disc must be labeled wrong - the 9.2.2 gray factory stamped disc from my Dad's old 700Mhz works for everything.. I think I need to image it and delete whatever one is saved on the DA's mirror volume..]
So! Downloaded a 9.2.1 iso, and both DAs booted right up! [Also the creator of the iso was kind enough to include a bunch of utilities: stuffit expander, resedit, USB overdrive, etc]
Still doesn't explain why my retail 9.2.1 disc and boot tested 9.1 discs didn't work.. But it's really a non-issue now ^_^
[Oh, there was one extra problem after it started booting... Whatever Nvidia AGP card I had in the DA didn't like OS 9 for some reason, though I could swear it was originally from a DA..]