I have a white iBook bought in the US in summer of 2003. I have Panther and OS 9.2.2 on it.
The first problem is that my internet access only works on OS 9.2 on my iBook. I have been trying to get it to work on OS X Panther, but without any luck. Now, for some reason, I cannot get my iBook to start up on OS 9. It will startup using the OS 9 installation disk, but I can't connect to the Internet using that disk and it's not convenient anyway.
I have gone to Nework and when I try to restart on OS 9, I just get the little sound that says I cannot do that. I have looked in the Console at the various logs. The most recurrent message says something along the lines of
error running bliss
and then a lot of other stuff that is not understandable to me. I could copy down the exact error message but it is pretty long.
In investigating, I think I read that perhaps there was an application in the OS 9 folder or the desktop that is not OS 9 compatible? For some reason it won't allow to me restart on OS 9.
Any ideas about how to override the startup mechanism so that it starts up in OS 9? I think I read a message in one of the logs saying that the disk was locked. What does that mean exactly or what causes it??
I have fooled around with trying to start it up in different ways, but it always chooses the OS X startup disk.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
thanks steve