How do I turn of the startup chimes on the Mac Mini. I remember I managed to get it turned off on my old Mac Mini but cant remember how I did it. I only run MOS on this one. The old one I had dual OS.

You need to download OS X app to disable startup chime.

The easiest way would be to turn off volume from OSX before shutting it last time (if you're going to use only MorphOS after it). Then it wouldn't need any extra software. But if you'd run dualboot system, then you could use StartupSound.prefPane app.

Maybe you could turn the volume off from OSX DVDs or something, I haven't tried. I've just always disabled it on new Macs before wiping OSX from the HD.

Anyway, I haven't heard any way to do it from MorphOS or OF...

[ Edited by jPV 24.12.2014 - 22:18 ]

You may also use a Linux-LiveCD to silence your MAC (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads).

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9795&forum=3#108974

If you can get it to boot PPC Linux you can use a line in CLI to remove the sound.

> How do I turn of the startup chimes on the Mac Mini.

As Amigaharry2 said, you can do it from Linux. More info there:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9276&forum=11&start=14
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9795&forum=3


Edit: Yasu was faster.

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 25.12.2014 - 00:25 ]

I simple disconnect useless internal speakers on both my macs.

@clr666

How do you do that?

1. Open case (look at ifixit.com)
2. Disconnect speaker connector from board
3. ?????
4. Profit!

No more terrible chimes :)

[ Edited by clr666 25.12.2014 - 22:46 ]

Bummer! I wiped OSX and choose only to go for MorphOS. Reason is my previous MacMini I had dual boot but never used OSX.

Anyhow I believe I have an Ubuntu CD somewhere as I remember I used that for partioning last time.

It would be cool íf disabeling chimes was embedded into the MorhpOS, but I have no idea of complexity involved for a developer to do this.

Startup Chimes is truly torture

:) Tomas

you can also put some old ear-phones in the headphone plug;)
Thats what I did, because I also didn't have OSX on my powerbook and the OSX DVDs from my mac mini didn't start on my powerbook.

@igraki: This won't work fine, if there is a audio-system connected....... very irretating in case of hot-reboots.......
Just download a Kubuntu PPC-LiveCD (Version > 13.04) and everything is going OK. This LivCD works on all MorphOS suported G4 and G5 MACs......

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Hello Harry,

I tried to boot Ubuntu from CD but something went wrong and now MorphOS has lost connection to the Mac Bluetooth Keyboard.

Do you have any idea how to get the Keyboard to connect again... it's just lost.

I restart the keyboad and it blinks to state it is not pair anymore but available connection. MorphOS does not react at all.

Tried reboot and all obvious things I can think of without any result. Not much you can do with only a mouse.. ;)

@TomKeric

After reading about your problem I wrote a blog post about it

http://morphosuser.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/removing-the-boot-sound/

Thanks YASU - that was an awesome and comprehensive description suiting someone with a clean MorphOS installation to get this solved.

Now I just need to get the Mac Keyboard to pair again with MorphOS. Any idea how?

It lost connection after I tried to load Ubuntu PPC 12.04 (which failed) and has not recovered since.

Do you know any link to for redo-pairing Keyboard on a MacMini with only MorphOS installed...

Best regards

/Tomas

@TomKeric

Sadly no. Thats outside my knowledge.

Thanks yasu for your tutorial, I set the volume to 1, so its chimes but no so loud!
usefull, if you reboot at night;)

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That's really bad..... If there are no bluetooth-prefs on your live-cd you need to download one which can do that, or you have to use real MAC-OS to pair keyboard/mouse again to your Mac.....

I don't know, but perhaps there is a way to do that in Open Firmware. You have to g...le.......


Btw.: you need not to install MacOS on your system - it is also possible to boot from an external HD (Firewire or USB) or USB-Stick. It basically makes sense to have such a MacOS "emergency stick".......(on Stick it's slow, but it runs....).
The best way to get such a stick is to "backup" MacOS on it - hope you know someone with a installed MacOS near you.........

OK, Harry, seems the version of UBUNTU I tried to run from CD wiped the connection to the wireless keyboard so I cannot use it anymore.

I need to find a wired USB keyboard now because I cannot boot any CD without access to any keys.

I have an OSX 10.5.6 Leopard (retail) with M55 Checksum Key on a CD (ISO file)

You think I can boot OSX directly on that one? It was originally used for installation of OSX I believe.

You should try that! If OSX boots, it should be possible to reactivate bluetooth...

You had really bad luck - I did that on many Minis, Powerbooks and PowerMacs_G5, but that never happens....
I used a Kubuntu liveCD.

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I solved this in following way:


I made a partition for OSX of 20GB to have OSX available for 1) handling the startup Chimes 2) be able to restore pairing of the MAC BT Keyboard

Unfortunately the pairing was not possible without OSX and it seemed not easy to run OSX on a stick so I figured it was better to have OSX quickly available if pair would be lost again

I tried various SUDO commands without success and as I anyhow needed OSX I decided to use the startupsound pane and mute startup chimes from there in OSX and keep the volume for on the internal speaker ON for other sounds.

I think if there was any program for MOS making it possible to do something like the startupsound pane does and also to be able to pair a BT mac keyboard I would not need OSX at all. I hope someone is able to create that so we can leave OSX out of the question, at least for us beginners.

Thank you all for your help

/Tom