On Feb 16, 2005, at 2:33 PM, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
I have a OS-9.2.2 disk connected to a G4 Silver [dual 533MHz]. This G4,
circa 2001, can boot natively into OS-9. Did Apple do something prevent
you from installing OS-9 on your newer G4 iBook?
Why yes, all new Apple hardware since a while ago (I'm not sure when, but for example, according to apple-history.com, the minimum os the original iBook G4 can run is 10.2.8. Apple's been doing this to a higher extent for even newer hardware; my Early 2004 (my gosh, it's that old already) iBook G4 needs 10.3, and the iMac G5 and Mac Mini needs 10.3.5+ or so.
I am guessing that MOL won't care since it only needs to know where the OS9 partition is located.
Hmmm... I tried this before but with come caviats. I set MOL to my OS X partition with Classic installed, and ran startmol (actually I was trying for OS X at the time). mol did something, i can't remember, but it hung somewhere.
If you have an OS-9 disk in an external box, this could be an easy
experiment to try, assuming you have a version of MOL with working sheep
drivers.
I'll be trying this when I get my brand new hard disk and external enclosure in a few days. (My book's gonna be a speed demon when I get that sucker in here! :)
Thanks, Andy
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 15:02, Andrew Zschetzsche wrote:On a slightly related note, does anyone know if you can use MOL to boot
into OS 9 on new hardware that no longer can do it? For example, on my
iBook G4 1.2ghz, where I can't start OS 9 by itself.
Thanks, Andy
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