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The iMac in question is completely clean yet for some reason will not boot from my retail Apple OS 9 disc. It boots just fine from my OS 10.1.5 disc, but will not start the OS installer when I use the OS 9 one.
I need to update the computer's firmware so I can upgrade to more recent versions of OS X, but if I cannot get OS 9 on there first, I don't know what I can do.
When the machine boots up I insert the OS 9 disc and hold down C. It will eject the disc, but if I push the disc back in once it fully ejects, it'll start searching for a start up disk before finding the disc. Then the screen will go gray and the CD will eject again. This time, still holding down C, I reinsert the disc and a floppy disc icon with a question mark flashes on the screen.
What can I do?

Actually, even the last iMac G3 only came with 9.1, so that disk may be for an early iMac G4.
Is the iMac able to boot other optical disks (like the one for Mac OS X installation)? If so, the drive is OK, so it is probably the disk being for a significantly different and later Mac model. The 9.2.2 disks in particular seem to be very model-specific.
Ideally, you should get a retail disk that is 9.0.4 or later. It should be white with a big orange 9 on it, and it should NOT say "upgrade" on it. The only retail disk your iMac may not be able to use is the original 9.0 disk (sold when Mac OS 9 was first released). You can get it up to 9.2.2 from any version of Mac OS 9 with free downloadable updaters

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