When you go to the Startup Pane in System Preferences, can you select OS 9 as the Startup disk?
If you can, select it and restart the machine. It "should" boot into OS 9 as long as that OS is not corrupted.
Was OS 9 on the same drive as OS X? It doesn't matter if it was, I was just wondering if it was on another drive and that drive was not functioning
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I am currently running Mac OSX on my G4. For some reason my classic 9 won't run any more. I can't open any programs that run on classic 9. I tried to reinstall classic 9 from the installation disk and that won't run either. Anything that has to do with classic 9 won't run.

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