Upgraded to OS X Jaguar - Can't see External Drives and Problem Booting 0S 9.2.2. Partition

Today I spent the day upgrading my Dual G4 450 to OS X Jaguar. I performed the following steps per Tom Wolsky's instruction's in his Final Cut Pro 3 Editing Workshop book, but can't see my external Fast-wide SCSI video drives (a single Jems 9 gig drive and a Medea VideoRaid SCSI 4/100)when booted into OS X, and after restoring my OS 9.2.2 system to the OS 9 partition I created, can only boot into OS 9.1 (my system folder is missing the little Mac icon).

1. I booted up OS 9.2.2
2. I copied my entire System disk to my Medea Video Raid
3. I ran the firmware update on the OS X Jaguar Install 1 disk
4. I rebooted to confirm the firmware update.
5. I rebooted off the OS X Jaguar Install disk 1
6. I ran Disk Utilites and checked my system disk for errors (none were found).
7. I partitioned my system disk into an OS 9 partition and an OS X partition
8. I installed OS X
9. Because I could not see my external drives, I pressed the option key while rebooting and booted off of the OS 9.2.1 disk that came with my OS X kit.
10. I copied my OS 9.2.2 system from the Medea Video Raid onto the Partition I created for OS 9.2.2.
11. I rebooted while pressing the option key and selected the OS 9.2.2 partition.
12. I watched while OS 9.1 was booted and wondered where my desktop icons were and why the system folder no longer contains the little mac icon (it still does on the copy that resides on my VideoRaid).

What did I do wrong and how do I recover?

Thanks,

David

Dwain,

The OS X Jaguar CDs that were shipped to me by Apple included a CD containing OS 9.2.1. That's what I meant by kit. I could have said the package that Apple sent me, but I said kit. I didn't mean to imply that this was a special install version of of OS X.

Tom Wolsky's Final Cut Pro 3 Editing Workshop book states on pages 8-10 that the Disk Utility function that is available when you boot off of the OS X install CD #1 should be used to repartition the disk. After first copying the contents of my 9.2.2. system disk to my Medea VideoRaid, I restarted the computer using the OS X disk and repartitioned (actually I did the firmware update before I did the repartition). Tom's book then instructs you to install OS X first before restoring OS 9 to the OS 9 partition.

From what I am reading in regards to my SCSI drives, it is that my 5-year old Fastwide SCSI adapter card is not supported by OS X. I can live with the fact that I will need to upgrade to a supported card, although I can't afford to do that right now. I don't care about seeing the external drives in classic mode since the reason I upgraded to OS X was so that I could run Final Cut directly from OS X. My plan was to boot to the OS 9.2.2. partition when I need to run my Media 100 software since I am running a much older version not supported by OS X.

What I'd like to do is restore my 9.2.2 system. But, for whatever reason, when I restored the original contents of my 9.2.2 system drive from the VideoRaid to the partitioned drive, the system folder became just a regular folder (I am assuming that the reason the system folder normally displays with the apple face icon is to designate it as a special Apple folder) and when I boot to this partition, it boots to OS 9.1 instead of to my upgraded OS 9.2.2.

Did I need to do something more than simply copy the entire contents of my original system disk to my VideoRaid? Except for the system folder, all of my original files seem to be intact.

Thanks,

David

Dwain,

The OS X Jaguar CDs that were shipped to me by Apple included a CD containing OS 9.2.1. That's what I meant by kit. I could have said the package that Apple sent me, but I said kit. I didn't mean to imply that this was a special install version of of OS X.

Tom Wolsky's Final Cut Pro 3 Editing Workshop book states on pages 8-10 that the Disk Utility function that is available when you boot off of the OS X install CD #1 should be used to repartition the disk. After first copying the contents of my 9.2.2. system disk to my Medea VideoRaid, I restarted the computer using the OS X disk and repartitioned (actually I did the firmware update before I did the repartition). Tom's book then instructs you to install OS X first before restoring OS 9 to the OS 9 partition.

From what I am reading in regards to my SCSI drives, it is that my 5-year old Fastwide SCSI adapter card is not supported by OS X. I can live with the fact that I will need to upgrade to a supported card, although I can't afford to do that right now. I don't care about seeing the external drives in classic mode since the reason I upgraded to OS X was so that I could run Final Cut directly from OS X. My plan was to boot to the OS 9.2.2. partition when I need to run my Media 100 software since I am running a much older version not supported by OS X.

What I'd like to do is restore my 9.2.2 system. But, for whatever reason, when I restored the original contents of my 9.2.2 system drive from the VideoRaid to the partitioned drive, the system folder became just a regular folder (I am assuming that the reason the system folder normally displays with the apple face icon is to designate it as a special Apple folder) and when I boot to this partition, it boots to OS 9.1 instead of to my upgraded OS 9.2.2.

Did I need to do something more than simply copy the entire contents of my original system disk to my VideoRaid? Except for the system folder, all of my original files seem to be intact.

Thanks,

David

Dwain,

I've finally got my 9.2.2. system restored on my system drive and working. I was up until early Wednesday morning trying a variety of things to get the system folder reblessed. The last thing I tried was copying my 9.2.2. backup from my JEMS drive instead of the VideoRaid. All I had copied to the JEMS drive was the system folder and my most important project folders. Without checking to see if system folder was okay after the copy, I went ahead and rebooted. Lo and behold (with no expectations on my part) my custom boot up screen came up instead of the MAC OS 9 boot up screen. I suddenly knew I wasn't in OZ anymore. After the system finished booting, I checked the system folder and now it was blessed.

I proceeded to restore the rest of my folders from the VideoRaid and now my OS 9.2.2. system is back to normal. I wish I could go to OS X, but unless I can get a firmware update for my Ultra SCSI card or if I decide to buy a new one, OS X doesn't do me much good right now. Things are good but not as well as I had hoped.

I appreciate all of your help.

Thanks,

David