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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    mt12345
    Posts: 72 from 2011/4/4
    From: Europe
    Hey I'm back! :-D

    After my Powermac DA died in August 2011 I havn't used MorphOS until yesterday.
    I got PM Quicksilver Dual G4 1GHz
    (I assume Morphos uses only 1 cpu?)
    I had to replace Geforce with an old Ati Rage in order to install MOS.

    I used this guide:

    http://library.morph.zone/Dual-boot_MorphOS_and_MacOS_X_on_a_Mac_Mini_G4

    to install MOS3.1 dual-booting with OSX Panther.
    However I cant set Morphos as default system

    Quote:

    To determine the partition number of the HFS boot partition type the following:

    dir hd:x,\\
    where x should be a number from 3 to n, depending on partition layout. If you see boot.img and bootinfo.txt files being listed, this is the correct one.


    when I type

    dir hd:8,\\

    I can see contents of OSX partition but

    dir hd:4,\\

    prints:
    'specified partition is not valid, can't open the dir device'

    in OSX, in disk utlity, I can't do anything with slice4 either.
    all options grayed out.

    I did anyway:

    setenv boot-command boot hd:4,\\bootinfo.txt

    Now Mac doesn't boot to either of OS, complaining about some error in openfimware.

    (I have to boot with ALT holding down)
  • »20.02.13 - 11:44
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2326 from 2003/2/24
    Did you try typing dir hd:3,\\ ? Or 5,6,7 ?

    Cos it's obvious that hd:4 is NOT the boot: partition and offcourse the Mac will fail booting files that aren't on a partition the OF can't even decipher (I assume hd:4 is the SFS-formated System: partition).

    And you really really want to replace that Rage with a proper Radeon sometime along the road ;)
  • »20.02.13 - 13:08
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    mt12345
    Posts: 72 from 2011/4/4
    From: Europe
    Quote:

    Did you try typing dir hd:3,\\ ? Or 5,6,7 ?


    Of course. From 3 to 20 then I gave up.

    Quote:

    And you really really want to replace that Rage with a proper Radeon sometime along the road ;)


    As stated here:

    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=7955&post_id=98900&viewmode=flat&sortorder=0&showonepost=1
  • »20.02.13 - 16:00
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2326 from 2003/2/24
    MMmmmm since your OSX is on hd:8 ...... tried dir on hd:1 and 2 too ?
  • »20.02.13 - 16:08
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    mt12345
    Posts: 72 from 2011/4/4
    From: Europe
    Yes.
    Disk utility in MacOS shows OSX on slice8 and slice4 (unknown/grayed out) is 10GB so it must be the partition where I installed MOS.
  • »20.02.13 - 16:20
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2326 from 2003/2/24
    Your NOT searching for the partition you installed MorphOS too as this is formated in SFS and therefore unreadble by the OpenFirmWare.

    You need to look for a small (64MB) MacOS-formated patition containing only a few files (boot.txt boot.img and bootinfo.txt).

    This should be readable both from OSX and OF.
  • »20.02.13 - 16:30
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    mt12345
    Posts: 72 from 2011/4/4
    From: Europe
    You re right!

    Stupid me :-/

    REBOOT
  • »20.02.13 - 16:53
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    mt12345
    Posts: 72 from 2011/4/4
    From: Europe
    Thanks a lot.
    It was slice2
    (I thought I tried hd:1 and hd:2 last night, apparently i didn't)
  • »20.02.13 - 17:05
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12163 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > I assume Morphos uses only 1 cpu?

    Your assumption is correct.
  • »20.02.13 - 17:45
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    mt12345
    Posts: 72 from 2011/4/4
    From: Europe
    FS: 1GHz G4 CPU :-D
  • »20.02.13 - 20:19
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