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classic.
quick test -- try booting classic. probably won't work. The two machines have slightly different architectures, and unless the original install was a universal one, it was customized for the the specific CPU. In unix speak, you have a kernel tuned for a specific machine, not a generic kernel, so it doesn't have what it needs to boot on a different machine.
The easy answer is to just re-install macOS 9 over the existing system folder. As long as you use the same version of the OS, it'll add the missing stuff for you. If you don't have the same version to install from, do a clean install, but that's a little more of a hassle.
All a relic of the days when disk space was a resource that needed to be conserved....
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