Hi all,
I'd just like to throw in my experiences with this. I actually don't frequent the Amiga forums so much these days, so only found out about this "Moana" thing earlier this evening quite by accident while looking for info on a project I'm considering (porting Mono to AmigaOS).
I have a Mac Mini, and an AmigaOS4 Final for AmigaOne CD (legitimately - not some pirated thing!).
My Mac Mini is NOT the "right spec", it's a 1.42 G4 with 32MB VRAM instead of the "required" 64MB. Also, the Open Firmware version is 4.8.9f1 instead of the "required" 4.9.4f1.
I don't use the Mini for anything anymore, since I really only need one Mac (most of my systems are Linux) and it was just sitting gathering dust. I'm quite willing to do ANYTHING to the old thing.
Reasonable start - I ALMOST have the right hardware, and I've got the software.
I tried the Moana ISO on it's own - didn't seem to get too far. Found a post on another forum mentioning the "setenv" that's required (doh!) and then got further (as in, got to see the 6 options for booting).
I actually tried all 6 options from the boot menu (documented each of them as I went, just in case). Got some pretty things with the P96 selections (kills Open Firmware, loads EXECSG, but then just repeats some error in graphics.library over and over in a pretty blue almost-topazish sort of font).
At that point, I stumbled across the thread here and read everyone's posts. A lot of smart people here it seems! (especially Leo24)
I re-built a new ISO by combining my OS4 CD with the Moana files. Same results (I was crazy enough to retry all 6 tests as well)
I re-built yet another ISO (thankfully I have a LARGE pile of blank CDs) with the "safe" version of ATIRadeon.chip instead of the original (thanks for noticing it Jeff!). Booting this one, I went straight for option 5 (no point trying the others at this stage I decided). And finally, I was rewarded with the Boing Ball and disk going in to the drive.
At this point (about 15 minutes ago) I was happy. I had something resembling an Amiga system sitting there. I wanted to see the early startup menu, but embarrassingly, couldn't find a suitable mouse (my Mini had an old one-button Mac mouse attached and my other mouses are bluetooth with the USB dongles LONG ago lost (integrated bluetooth in most of my hardware)).
So, tomorrow, I will grab a mouse from work, and the adventures will continue!
