Installing 80 gb hard disk from G4 into beige desktop G3

I have a 266 ghz beize desktop G3 with a 4 gb hard drive and 384 mb of memory, running OS 9.2.2. I use the G3 as a spare for my Mirror Door 1.25 ghz G4. I run OS 10.3.9 on the G4. I would prefer to run OS 10.3.9 on the G3.
I thought I would buy a new hard drive for the G4, copy the existing hard drive on to the new hard drive, and install the G4's 80 gb hard drive into the G3. I tried installing the G4 hard drive into the G3 and booting. The screen began showing "No HFS bootable partition" and kept printing this across the screen until about a quarter filled. The screen then reverted to the disk symbol with flashing question mark (can't find the start-up disk).
No problem with the G4 hard disk back in the G4. Not so the G3 with its original 4 gb hard disk reinstalled. I kept getting the same "No HFS bootable partition" printing across the screen and then reverting to the disk symbol with flashing question mark (can't find the start-up disk). I have another working beige G3 and the result was identical.
I tried starting from Nortons and then from the original OS 8.5 CD. After many, many restarts, the G3 began starting from the 4 gb hard disk again (not every time, but appears stable now). Does anyone have idea where I am going wrong. Does it have something to do with the Mac OS extended fromat on the G4 hard disk? Any ideas why the G3 could not find the reinstalled OS9 4 gb drive after my attempt?

Jaguar (OS 10.2.X) will install on the Beige without XPostFacto. There are some hoops (like the under 8GB boot partition) through which we all must pass to install it, but the Beige G3 "officially" supports Jaguar.
Any OS that's 10.3 or higher must have XPostFacto to install on a Beige. XPostFacto writes ROM code that the Beige cannot do alone, permitting the newer OS to install and run.
If you have a retail install copy of Panther, it came on CDs and avoids the DVD problem. Some people have posted here that Panther seems more stable on the Beige than Tiger. From what I can tell, Panther and Tiger, for most uses within the Beige's capability, differ only in Dashboard and Spotlight. Both are cool, but I can live without them.
Partitioning: I make the "under 8GB" partition as large as possible by manually entering "7.99" in the window that shows the desired partition size. The resulting partition comes out around 7.8 G after formatting. If you install Panther or Tiger, you need to have a valid OS9 operating system in the other partition with the XPostFacto application. XPF requires you boot from OS9 and launch XPF, which then loads the required data to get a boot from the OSX installer CD.
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