Migration Assistant Won't Connect - Firewire Symbol never appears

Just got a 20-inch iMac, trying to run Migration Assistant to transfer my G4 info over. G4 has two internal drives. The booting drive is a OSX and the other drive is an OS9.
When I restart the G4 holding the T key, the firewire symboil never appears and the computer just starts up like nothing is happening.
Help?

Restart the G4 into OS X, System Preferences->Startup Disk->ensure that the OS X volume is selected, restart holding down the T key. If that doesn't do it, open up the G4, disconnect the OS 9 disk, and try again. If still no go, change the OS X disk's jumpers to master, and try again.

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