Just got a $25 PPC G4 Mac (grey series) and wanted to have some fun.
I downloaded Morphos, booted from the cd -- and voila! Morphos worked!

But it cant find my drive?
I read somewhere that it needs to be connected to the ATA socket on the motherboard, but that is presently unused.

The CD-rom is connected to the first IDE socket, and the HDD on the other.
But since it boots from the cd-rom into morphos -- what is wrong with the second device port? (device driver not picking up the second IDE socket?)

What should I do?

At 1st it might help if you identify would HW you have exactly :http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/index-powermac-g4.html

Don't know bout other versions, but on the Quicksilver-mobos you'll find 2 40pin IDE-headers.

One pointing to the front of the case, that where the CD-drive will be connected.

Another pointing to the bottom, used for HDs.

This brings up some questions:

- are the drives connected that way ?

- does the G4 boot into OSX when no CD is in the drive ?

- any odd HW (PCI-cards) installed ?

I tried to upload pictures, but aparently there is a server error on the board (attachment folder is missing the error says).

Here is what OS X has to say (roughly translated from norwegian):




Model name: Power Mac G4

Modellidentifikator: PowerMac3,3

CPU name: PowerPC G4 (2.9)

CPU Speed: 450 MHz

# of CPU-units: 2

level 2-buffer (per CPU-unit): 1 MB

memory: 1 GB

BUS speed: 100 MHz

Start-ROM-version: 4.2.8f1

Serial number (system): CK032152J3C

Machine-UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-003065A19D3C



ATI VGA:


Chipset model: ATY,RV100

Type: Skjerm

Buss: AGP

Slot: SLOT-A

VRAM (totalt): 64 MB

Provider: ATI (0x1002)

Unit-ID: 0x5159

Revision-ID: 0x0000

ROM-Revision: 113-85501-226

Display:

LL 3220T:

Rez: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz

Depth: 32-bitsfarge

Core Image: Programvare

MainScreen: Ja

Dual screen display: Av

Connected: Ja

Quartz Extreme: Støttet

Screen socket:

Status: Ingen skjerm tilkoblet



ATA-buss:


WDC WD800JB-00JJC0:


Kapasitet: 74,53 GB

Modell: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0

Revisjon: 05.01C05

Serienummer: WD-WCAM9U126470

Uttakbart medium: Nei

Ekstern stasjon: Nei

BSD-navn: disk0

Protokoll: ATA

Enhetsnummer: 0

Socket-type: Intern

Lav strømtilførsel: Nei

Mac OS 9-drivere: Nei

Partisjonskarttype: APM (Apple-partisjonskart)

S.M.A.R.T.-status: Verifisert

Volumer:

System:

Kapasitet: 74,41 GB

Tilgjengelig: 63 GB

Skrivbar: Ja

Filsystem: Journaled HFS+

BSD-navn: disk0s3

Aktiveringspunkt: /

MorphOS not finding your HD can really mean 2 things:

a) not connected where it should be

b) that ancient clunker is on the edge of dying (had some weird issues with with an 120GB drive in a PowerBook that soon after died).

This is extremely oss.

I remembered I had an IDE disk at work -- so i jumped in my car and got it.

The HD in the Mac was connected to the second IDE plug, so I set my second HDD as cable-select, added it -- and lo & behold.. that became visible in Morphos.

Installing now.
Hopefully, when I reboot - I will be able to dual boot between OS X and Morphos!

Ok. Now for software.
Where can i download

1. Docing app (like OS X)
2. FreePascal / Lazarus
3. Openoffice

Also, GUI header files for FPC is also very welcome!

Hope someone can help a newbie