Help! I screwed up my imac

I have been trying to duel boot Mac os 10.4.11 with Mac os 9. It is a iMac (Early 2001) indigo. I did something stupid I used sheep shaver to make a system folder you’ll know why in a minute. Now I installed Mac os 9.0.4 (the sheep shaver max along with my ROMs) on a dmg so I could get the system folder later.
When I put in my Mac os 9.0.4 CD it gives me a floppy with a ? on it same with my 9.2.1 cd now what I did was take the sheep shaver system folder put it on my HD went into my startup disk and set it to the sheep shaver system folder only Mac os 9.0.4.
I am an extreme idiot because now I look up and see my Mac runs a minimum of Mac os 9.1 and its trying to boot on 9.0.4 so I get a folder with a ? And then switches to the finder I need help I tried holding CMD-x but it doesn’t work Help!!!I need to get on an os to switch the start up disk can I change the startup disk in open firm ware
also heres some more info
Have you tried holding Command-C to force it to boot from the CD?
Yes when I do command It completely ignores the cd and goes to the folder with the finder ? then after a few seconds changes to floppy with a ? then this is weird goes to load mac os 9 I get the happy mac and then it goes to the mac os nine loading screen and I acept it is the extensions off one and get a error message saying
"Sorry, a system error occurred.
unimplemented trap
To temporarily turn off extensions, restart and hold down shift" and then there a restart button in the right corner and a time bomb in the left I get the same thing with just holding down "c" but no folder with the finder and then a ?
Have you reset the Parameter RAM?
Yes it start doing whats above after I did that
My mac os 9 cds are retail

performalover wrote:
I also tried c it did not work either and I tried holding down options and all it show is the cd when the cd is out it shows nothing I can hear the Hard drive and it worked before I put the os 9 system folder on it so its not fried and x does not work either
Have you tried booting from the cd after the option hold down?
Perhaps you trashed your boot information? I do not know how to fix it.
Have you tried disk first aid?
You will need to boot from you installation disk. I have not done this, but here are some hints:
see this article
Or from mrtotes article :
Boot from the OS X Install disk and from the Menu Bar choose Disk Utility. Then run "Repair Disk" and "Repair Disk Permissions" on your hard disk.

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1.65 GB Page-outs

You only have 2GB of RAM, which is not enough to run OS X 10.10 smoothly (it's the bare minimum requirement to run it at all). Consider buying more at http://eshop.macsales.com (there are other vendors as well). Find the correct RAM for your model by searching for your iMac's model identifier - iMac8,1. Also look at their installation videos.
You have several failed Apple launch agents, you may need to re-install OS X to fix that. Boot the computer while holding down the Command ⌘ and R keys at the same time. This will boot to the Recovery partition. Choose the reinstall OS X option.

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