Hi! My name is Ilia. I'm a 32-year old transfeminine enby nerd and a big fan of both vintage and non-x86 computer architectures. I've got an account on Macintosh Garden as PPCenby and kinda wish I registered that username here, but compulsively entered one I use elsewhere... Mods?

Well, after lurking here and occasionally running the MorphOS demo for years, I recently acquired a "silent upgrade" Mac Mini G4. Just hours ago I finally took the plunge and registered my new MorphOS 3.17 installation on that machine! The previous owner upgraded it with a 120GB SSD and I upgraded the optical drive to a Superdrive after the combo drive quickly failed during the initial install attempt.

After some initial confusion with the partitioning scheme, I set it up to dual boot the latest version of MorphOS with Mac OS X 10.3.9. "But wait!" I hear some of you say; "the 'silent upgrade' logic board only supports 10.4.2 minimum!" While this is officially true, it's nothing a little open firmware magic couldn't subvert... Just change the 'model' and 'compatible' properties to indicate PowerMac10,1 (instead of 10,2) and hand off the boot to the older version of the OEM Mac Mini install disc, which will pass its checks and graciously install itself onto your souped-up Mini, none the wiser! ;)

Welcome. Is there any advantage of using 10.3 rather than 10.4?

@ jarokuczi - None that I can think of, and in any case Mac OSX Tiger can be downloaded for free from Wayback Machine - Mac Tiger search, as can Leopard 10.5.x from the Wayback Machine - Mac Leopard Search

I prefer 10.4.11 Tiger as you can run Classic 9 applications and Mac OSX software on it, which you can't on Leopard, as most will probably know anyway.

You are welcome!

You are welcome to this hobby and it is interesting different sensibilities in Amiga and MorphOS world.

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Smaller memory footprint (bearing in mind the Mini's 1GB ceiling and how memory-hungry OS X applications tend to be compared with MorphOS), better bundled software suite imo, and better, more compatible Classic environment by most accounts.
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Thank you so much! I had some initial difficulty logging back in, but that seems to have been sorted out.

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Here's a question for y'all: How do I get my MorphOS installation to show up in the Startup Disk chooser in OS X, so I don't have to hold option every time I want to boot into MorphOS? I thought about selecting the "OS X startup" option for my existing Boot partition, but will this damage my existing installation?

[ Edited by PPCenby 12.12.2022 - 13:09 ]

Go to the end of this link and read about booting from MorphOS first. Is for mac mini and it worked in my PowerMac g5 too.


Dual boot

[ Editado por tolkien 12.12.2022 - 22:20 ]

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Thanks! I actually found that just now, probably right when you posted, and it totally worked! Because of my new Superdrive being hardwired as master on the IDE bus, I had to set my IDE-SSD adapter to slave, and because of that, my open firmware now thinks the CD is the HDD and vice-versa, so it takes more poking around than usual to get these things right!

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I don't use a Startup Disk in OSX, and I rarely use MacOSX anyway . . . but . . . I see you found the
MorphOS Library - Dual Booting MorphOS_and_MacOS_X on a Mac Mini

I figured out how to override the default devaliases in open firmware, so now hd really points to the hd and cd really points to the cd. One minor peculiarity still remains, however... Even though the eject cd command now works properly within open firmware, the mouse button shortcut on startup still doesn't do anything. A minor inconvenience, I know, but can anyone shed some insight into whether I could possibly restore this functionality? Could it have something to do with the fact that the devalias for ide1 won't change to the default path for ide0 when I try to set that?

Afair lmb is handled by OSX when it starts booting, not by OF. So if you’re booting MorphOS or Linux, the lmb won’t do a thing.

Ah, thanks for the info! So I didn't overlook something, after all! :)

Welcome!