MAC G4 - starting from different OS

Hi I need help. I'm completely new to Mac. I have two Power MAC G4, an assembled in Ireland = Y and the other Singapore = Z, but inside, the components are different.  I have two HDD, drive HARD-A = OS X 10.3.1 (7 C 107) and the other a HDD - B = BONE Z1 - 9.2.2. The two hard drive HDD - A / B boots in computing Y but only drive HDD - B actually starts in computer Z. When I placed the HARD-B disc in computer Z, says MAC OS ROM 10.2.1.

I would be grateful if someone could explain to me how do the boots with HDD - A computer, which are that I really need. HDD - Is a software that control a CNC machine.

PowerMac G4s internal hard drives are usually the parallel ATA IDE drives, with a particular rider (a tooth two pins plastic that snaps on the two pins next to the port of the interface in the diagram shown on the sticker from the outside of the hard drive.     If these hard drives are hard drives internal to these two PowerMac G4, you must verify that the two PowerMac G4s are in fact identical in terms of vintage before starting one with the other.   Target disk mode is a tool that allows a PowerMac G4 except the first model to turn into a very expensive external hard drive Firewire with internal drive basically designed to start any installed Mac OS on it.

Say if you want to have a car that can boot Mac B, but were not sure that he could start A Mac, you can always insert into the slot of the internal drive A Mac as a master drive and it is not visible in target disk Mode.  Target disk mode is described here:

How to use and troubleshoot disk mode target FireWire - Apple Support

This trick allows to identify your Mac:

http://discussions.Apple.com/docs/doc-6413

This trick lets you know which operating system provided with your Mac and more recent operating systems of the Mac retail can start:

Mac OS: Versions, versions included with the Mac PowerPC (since 1998) - Apple Support

In General, no Mac cannot start an older Mac OS X or more old Mac OS 9 that shipped with it.

Editions of the later retail sales are identified further on this tip of the label on the CD:

Download my Mac OS upgrade?

And they can't say update, dropin or OEM.

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