Mac mini Os4

[Trev]

All, the Moana bootloader (or whatever it's called) was never made legally public, so you shouldn't be having this conversation here. Not trying to play forum police, but you know, someone will come along and kill the conversation eventually.

A more constructive conversation would be an overview of what needs to be done to implement a new bootloader, either as a standalone ELF executable, a standalone Forth program, or some combination of the two. If anyone knows the ins and outs of the OS4 boot process, now's the time to chime in.

[CHR74]

well.. this conversation is just for the sake of knowledge.. I'm not even thinking of buying an OS4.. It's merely curiosity .. to see if I can get this kickstart thing appearing.

[Trev]

Now you've gone and killed the thread for sure. ;-)

[CHR74]

maybe

[sbeehre]

thats exactly where i got to on my 12" G4 powerbook... no matter what option i chose it just kernel panic'd

[Krusher]

Probably because Moana expects other hardware.

[hbarcellos]

Let's just suppose, for a second, that someone would want to create a bootable ISO, having

AmigaOS_4.0_Final.lha
Amiga Moana Files (ISO)

just to try OS4 on a Quicksilver g4 933...
how this someone suppose to create a bootable ISO to try on Quicksilver?

*PS* This guy promisses to buy a legal copy of OS 4 if it ever comes available to g4 macs...

[os4macg4]

http://os4macg4.wikidot.com/

Anyone who wants to help me on that, send me an e-mail to os4macg4@gmail.com

regards,
 :idea:

[Trev]

Anyhow, it's probably hanging on initialization of a kernel module. If you're using one of the "debug" boot options (those that enable the serial port and set an appropriate debuglevel) and your iMac has a working serial port, you might get some useful information by connecting a serial console. The OS4 SDK might have information on debugging the boot process as well.

[jj]

@ os4macg4

Thaat site contains links to a torrent of at least two illegal torrents.  Posting that link here I am pretty sure is againt the TOS of the site.  I would removed before they are removed

[sdyates]

Get it to work on the intel mini and I will be impressed

[CHR74]

oh serial console.. mmm let's get this bootloader to work

[jorkany]

os4macg4,

http://os4macg4.wikidot.com/

"First you need to download two files:
Amiga OS 4 ISO and Amiga Moana Files

*PS* We don't recommend piracy. Downloading OS4 through torrent is a crime! But we strongly think that making os4 runnable on G4 Macs would boost it's sales, so…"

LOL, is that you Atheist?

[persia]

I only use the pirate bay for the Linux torrents!

:angel:

[CHR74]

One way could be comparing the hardware specs between the macmini and the imac to see the difference and tailor a bootloader.. macmini specs anyone?

[Krusher]

The main difference between imacs and mac mini's is the videocard. The Imac's use Nvidia chips, the mini's Ati chips.
No way to get Moana running on an Imac unless someone, somehow gets his hands on the Nivdia sourcecodes and port it to OS4/Openfirmware/Moana for PPC.