Mac OS X 10.3: Restoring a Mac OS 9 System Folder from a disk image file

This document applies when:

• You restored a Mac OS 9 System Folder from a custom disk image.
  
• You can't start from the restored System Folder, but you can use it for Classic. If you try to start from it, a flashing question mark appears.
  
• The image was restored using Mac OS X Panther's Disk Utility application in Mac OS X 10.3 through 10.3.3.
  
• The affected computer can normally start from Mac OS 9. Some computers only start up in Mac OS X.
  

The solution to these symptoms is to restore the image using a Terminal command instead of Disk Utility. The command is "asr". For more information about restoring from custom disk images with the asr command, see Mac OS X 10.2: About Apple Software Restore command line utility (asr).

Example

If you're restoring from the custom disk image named "PHOBE.img" that is on the desktop, to a volume named "STEER", you'd do this:

1. Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/).
   
2. Type this command in Terminal, on one line:
   
   sudo asr -source ~/Desktop/PHOBE.dmg -target /Volumes/STEER/ -erase
   
   
3. Enter your administrator account password when prompted.
   
4. Quit Terminal after the restore is complete.