Mac mini Os4

[kickstart]

FWIW he typed in one of the messages there,
"mac mini 1.25 mhz 1 gb ram 40 gb hd" as a response, so he would appear to have the junior mini.

Yes, mac mini g4 1,25ghz this is the model but we dont know the openfirmware version and this is the question, i doubt that mac mini 1,25ghz comes with the same version of openfirmware that mac mini 1,5ghz, but like allways this advances come with no info

[Rob]

@ozkano

Can you do a soft reset and get to the early startup menu.  If you can try booting without startup sequence and see if you can get a shell window.

If you do get as far a shell window try typing the following;

unlock_eject macminiide.device 1 (assuming that unit 1 is the CD-ROM)

I think to stand any chance if booting into workbench you are going to have to make a new ISO with the Moana files and the files from the version of OS4 classic that you bought.

[ami_junki]

webmany wrote:

ami_junki wrote:
Mac Minis are intel chipsets right?  Does the Amiga OS 4 run on intel chipset, I thought it was for Motorola and PPC?  That would be awesome if t did work though, could get rid of my bloody awful mac os x  :pissed:

The original Mac Minis were PPC.

ahh that makes more sense then, didn`t realise they had a PPC mac mini too ... hmm might be worth investing in one of those, do they have an audio in port?

[ozkano]

I am new at my mac mini,

first of all how can I learn mini's firmware

I still could not eject cd from mini, and still have not installed os 4

I tried few things, like injecting a1 os 4 files in to this booting iso but, it gives error like "file is too small"
 
I also have a1 se edition and installed os4, the next thing I wanto to remove a1's hard drive to installed to mac mini, ufortinetly I cant remove mini's cover it has no screew

Also I tried soft reset and try to reache early startup, I could not find reset combination on keyboard

[BooBoo1200]

first of all how can I learn mini's firmware

Amigaz - Amigaworld.net
You check it it MacOS, open system profiler.....it's also in "About this Mac"

It should also be at the top of the Open FirmWare Screen

Maybe youve got the silent upgraded 1.33GHZ Mini?

[Martin_Lee]

Hi guys, Im a bit of a mac geek,

To get the Mac mini open look here: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/Mac-Mini/82 you need a spatular/wall scraper to open a Mac Mini

To force your mac to eject a disc, hold down the mouse at start up

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459 Look here for start up keyboard shortcuts. There is no restart combination while the machine has booted.

[Rob]

@ozkano

Did you try using a PC keyboard and mouse in order to do a reboot and reach the early startup.

[HenryCase]

_ThEcRoW wrote:
Is it possible to run it on pearpc or qemu?

AFAIK, it wouldn't be possible to run it through PearPC as it doesn't emulate OpenFirmware. However, there is a decent chance of getting it working on QEmu using this as a component:
http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/

I wish I had the knowledge (or the time to acquire the knowledge) on how to build a suitable VM for OS4, it would solve so many problems.

[_ThEcRoW]

Yeah, seems like qemu is the only one who has some implementation of openfirmware.
Anyone can check it out?

[sbeehre]

i tried the iso on my powerbook g4 1.5ghz yesterday and it almost works except when i goes to load the kickstart screen it crashes and i get a kernel panic.

[CHR74]

I have one of these:



Where do I get the iso file to try this kernel loading thing?

[persia]

What difference would a PC keyboard make?  I've used Mac keyboards on PCs and PC keyboards on Mac and as far as  can tell except for the missing right command key on a Windows keyboard they are identical...

Rob wrote:
@ozkano

Did you try using a PC keyboard and mouse in order to do a reboot and reach the early startup.

[Gwion]

Where can I download the bootloader thing?

[sbeehre]

its on the piratebay

[persia]

sbeehre wrote:
its on the piratebay

There are many copyright violations there, do not, under any circumstances,  go there and look for AmigaOS 4.

[sbeehre]

with a name like thepiratebay i just cant believe that there would be copyrighted stuff on there....