Classic Startup Volume

[radiohead]

I recently re-formatted my drive with the following partitions: MACOS9, 0SX/Classic, Swap, Applications and Users. I was planning on optimizing Classic, but when I attempted to change the Classic Startup Volume in the Classic Preferences Pane in OS X, my OSX/Classic partition was nowhere to be found, only the full OS 9. I re-booted choosing OS X/Classic from the Start-Up Disk Preference Pane and went through the OS 9 system set-up, but to no avail. I noticed the System 9 Folder in OS X isn't displaying a '9', as does the full OS 9 System Folder. I'm not sure if this is relevant, just an observation; perhaps it's not 'blessed'. Any help would be appreciated.

[xchanyazy]

You're probably right - try and bless it.
In the terminal:
bless -folder9 "/System Folder"
should do it for you.

[rchrd]

I'm having the same sort of problems. But when
I try to boot to an OS 9 system that is on an
external FW drive it reverts back to 10.

I tried to boot from the command line:
sudo bless -folder9 "/Volumes/FWDisk/System Folder" -setOF

i get a diagnostic error
bless: Can't set firmware

(Actually, the error message says "firmwaire"
would you believe)

Still, I CAN boot from the FW drive when I'm
running OS9. Only OS X seems to have a problem.

Very annoying. I'm running 10.1.3 on a G4.
Was there something about this problem with the
10.1.3 update???