Beachy, I appreciate your thoughts. However, I ultimately cloned the drive via SuperDuper running in OS 10.4 (Xpostfacto) via USB (cardbus PC card).
My main problem now is with crashing and drive errors. After a hefty number of reboots, both partitions of my drive are quite nearly unbootable. Prior to getting this bad, I was able to very the drives with Disk Utility in Tiger, and there were "sibling" errors and other such nonsense that Disk Utility refused to repair. I then plopped in Disk Warrior 4.1 and repaired the directory, but then when I checked it via Disk Utility it gave me a different incurable error.
I must say this particular machine is frustrating. It drops into Open Firmware about every time I use Xpostfacto to switch between OS 9 and OS X Tiger. And then it tells me my login is invalid, even though it is not. (I simply don't have any password setup, so maybe that's it.)
But as of right now, I get the spinning spike wheel forever when I try to boot Tiger, and although it will boot into the OS 9 partition it locks up rather quickly, no matter what I do, even with Extensions turned off.
The PRAM battery is dead, but I have a good main battery. And of course the AC power is also connected.
This Wallstreet has a Sonnet 500MHz G4 card in it, which is why it can run OS 10.4 via Xpostfacto rather well. Surprisingly well, when it initially worked. But now even my clone drive is reporting the same errors I got on the internal drive. And I can't boot off the clone because I can get my Firewire card to work, and the USB card won't allow me to boot a USB drive. (My cloned drive is my OWC SSD in an 2.5" case, which has both Firewire and USB ports on it.)
Not sure if all Wallstreets are this flakey (I'm new to them), but this one is driving me up a wall!
My main problem now is with crashing and drive errors. After a hefty number of reboots, both partitions of my drive are quite nearly unbootable. Prior to getting this bad, I was able to very the drives with Disk Utility in Tiger, and there were "sibling" errors and other such nonsense that Disk Utility refused to repair. I then plopped in Disk Warrior 4.1 and repaired the directory, but then when I checked it via Disk Utility it gave me a different incurable error.
I must say this particular machine is frustrating. It drops into Open Firmware about every time I use Xpostfacto to switch between OS 9 and OS X Tiger. And then it tells me my login is invalid, even though it is not. (I simply don't have any password setup, so maybe that's it.)
But as of right now, I get the spinning spike wheel forever when I try to boot Tiger, and although it will boot into the OS 9 partition it locks up rather quickly, no matter what I do, even with Extensions turned off.
The PRAM battery is dead, but I have a good main battery. And of course the AC power is also connected.
This Wallstreet has a Sonnet 500MHz G4 card in it, which is why it can run OS 10.4 via Xpostfacto rather well. Surprisingly well, when it initially worked. But now even my clone drive is reporting the same errors I got on the internal drive. And I can't boot off the clone because I can get my Firewire card to work, and the USB card won't allow me to boot a USB drive. (My cloned drive is my OWC SSD in an 2.5" case, which has both Firewire and USB ports on it.)
Not sure if all Wallstreets are this flakey (I'm new to them), but this one is driving me up a wall!