Boot into os9 shows ?question mark? flashing - How do I fix this?

Hi All - old g4 - from snow leo i was able to boot into os9 classic - but I needed to go farther and boot directly into os9
- so i chose it from startup disk prefs
- it came up with os9 happy face for 1/2 second then moved to a page with floppy icon and ?question mark? flashing inside - now it was stuck on this even with off/on
- I tried all the known keys etc. to restart in 10.6 - nothing worked... I had to remove the drive and start from external - then xxxx and re-chose 10.6 so I'm back to work...
BUT: I would like to fix the os9 partition that always worked in the past so :
Q: HOW DO I FIX THE - floppy icon and ?question mark? flashing inside - and get it to see os9?

Using OS 9 in Classic isn't quite the same as booting directly into OS 9. When installing OS 9, one step that must be done in order to boot to it is to install the disk driver. If you didn't do that, then you can't boot into OS 9.
You might be able to get it to work by running Disk Repair (I think that's what it's called. Can't remember for sure) within Classic. Somewhere in the menus you have the option to install the driver on the drive you choose. See if that works.
If not, the only fix after that is to boot to the OS 9 disk, do an erase and install, and make sure to choose the option to install the disk driver. So back up both your OS 9 and OS X installations first. If OS 9 is on its own partition, then you can do the Erase and Install to that drive without affecting the OS X drive/partition.
Afterwards, either copy your third party apps back to the OS 9 partition from your backup, or reinstall them.

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