Morphos on CUBE G4?

[highland]

Hi I was excited about the recent announcement of Morphos Being able to run on all G4's.I got an old CUBE G4 and follewed all the partition info correctly but when I insert the Morpos boot cd I get a white screen and the following message:

Quark/Openfirmware
console failed

What does this mean can anybody help?

[kedawa]

I'm pretty sure the cube is unsupported.  What sort of video card does it have?

[Kronos]

Noone ever said "all G4s".....

Supported:

MacMini 1.25-1.5 GHz
eMac 1.25 GHz (?)
PowerMac-G4 everthing with AGP-slot and ATI-GFX (your mileage may vary)

Everything else will fail.

[Golem!dk]

Hi I was excited about the recent announcement of Morphos Being able to run on all G4's.

You misread, supported models are listed in the release notes.

I got an old CUBE G4 and follewed all the partition info correctly but when I insert the Morpos boot cd I get a white screen and the following message:

Quark/Openfirmware
console failed

What does this mean can anybody help?

Your mac is not supported, see above.

[highland]

I see now, A Cube is a Powermac 5,1, not supported. Videocard is an Ati Rage 128Pro (with 16 Mb ram)

[kedawa]

The problem is that the release notes use a numbering scheme that doesn't correspond to actual model numbers or product IDs that appear on the machine itself or Apple's website.
If you can't boot MacOS and check the specs, you'll have no idea which one it is.
Personally, I'm holding out for a June 2003 1.25GHz single cpu system.

[kedawa]

The problem is that the release notes use a numbering scheme that doesn't correspond to actual model numbers or product IDs that appear on the machine itself or Apple's website.
If you can't boot MacOS and check the specs, you'll have no idea which one it is.
Personally, I'm holding out for a June 2003 1.25GHz single cpu system.

[Golem!dk]

@kedawa

Luckily you got the names right next to the system ID, and of course the Cube was newer sold as a PowerMac, that name is reserved for their tower models, you've also got sites like EveryMac.com to help you figure out what you've got.

[highland]

@kedawa

Luckily you got the names right next to the system ID, and of course the Cube was newer sold as a PowerMac, that name is reserved for their tower models, you've also got sites like EveryMac.com to help you figure out what you've got.

Errr. It was sold as Powermac Cube G4. Even the manual says so. The sale pitch was "Power of a Tower Powermac in a small cube." Sadly it is a bit of shit computer . Hard to expand and very hard to reach its ports (you have to turn it over, and then it turns of ...)

[Golem!dk]

Errr. It was sold as Powermac Cube G4. Even the manual says so. The sale pitch was "Power of a Tower Powermac in a small cube." Sadly it is a bit of shit computer . Hard to expand and very hard to reach its ports (you have to turn it over, and then it turns of ...)

Right, but anyway... models supported are listed on the MorphOS website, they seem fairly affordable from what I have seen.

[kedawa]

I often see the slower G4 towers for about $50 here in Toronto.  Anything above 1GHz seems to be in the $100-$200 range.

[Iggy]

I often see the slower G4 towers for about $50 here in Toronto.  Anything above 1GHz seems to be in the $100-$200 range.

I built a 933Mhz Quicksilver out of parts for under $100.

The MorphOS team repeatdly stated they weren't going to support the Cube.