G5 PowerPC Mac and Radeon 9200 SE
  • Cocoon
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    pikewerfer
    Posts: 54 from 2021/7/9
    Hi guys,

    I have been using MorphOS on and off on my little Mac mini for some years now. More off than on, as the Mac mini is just too slow for serious work.

    However, I was now fortunate enough to get my hands on a G5 PowerPC Mac 7.2. Unfortunately, it has an NVidia card, and therefore cannot run MorphOS. I still had a spare Radeon ATI 9200 SE lying around, and was hoping I could get it to boot.

    I booted MacOS with the NVidia card, set the boot path via sudo nvram boot-device="cd:,\\boot.img", which worked just fine, confirmed the path is correctly set, then shut down, changed graphic cards, then booted from CD ... and waited.

    However, MorphOS seems not ok with that card, the monitor never kicked in. Am I doing something wrong? Or is this card not supported (it is on the list)?
    Mac Mini 1.25 GHZ, 1 GB RAM, MorphOS 3.19
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