I think OS4 CAN be run on MAC MINI (USABLE)

[ck007]

Looks like someone has released a combined Moana and OS4 torrent on thepiratebay.org

Do a search for "Amiga Moana"

[ck007]

Does anyone know why I get the message "USB stack not started." when booting from the CD??? :-?

[ck007]

It looks like another ISO was released today on thepiratebay and mininova which has a loader profile for the ATI safe driver.  It also contains the July 2007 updates.

For those who own a 1.42GHz G4 Mac Mini, this could be your lucky day...  :-D

[ck007]

@_ThEcRoW

I have a 1.5GHz Mac Mini.  Here's my specs:

Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: PowerMac10,2
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Processor Speed: 1.5 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.9.4f0

It seems we get 3 different results:

 1) It works
 2) Black screen
 3) Garbled screen

On my Mac Mini, the non-safe driver works perfect.  When I try using the safe driver, the screen looks fine but the pointer is a transparent cyan colour.

Maybe if everyone posts their Mac Mini details (found under About this Mac), we could try troubleshoot the problems.


Cheers,
ck16

_ThEcRoW wrote:
I get black screen when booting with the safe driver. How did you it ck007?
I have a 1.42 ghz mac mini 32mb vram

[ck007]

From what I believe, the latest ISO released contains the OS4 Final + July 2007 files overlayed with the bare Moana fileset.

So far we've tried the OS4 final ATI chip driver, the Moana ATI chip driver and Moana Safe ATI chip driver.

Somebody posted here a few months ago that they have a 32MB Radeon card in their Mac Mini, and received the black screen, but once they merged the files, they managed to get the screen working.

[ck007]

Yep, mine is ROM Revision: 113-xxxxx-133

Is there any way for those on lower versions to flash their video BIOS?

BooBoo1200 wrote:
Would I be right in guessing the working Minis have the later ATI Radeon -ROm Revision 113-xxxxx-116?

[ck007]

Does anyone have an e-mail address for Andrea Vallinotto?

If so, please PM me


Cheers,
ck16