(Copying Mark Cave-Ayland in - see below) * Finn Thain ([email protected]) wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Nov 2025, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > OK, remember I don't think I've ever tried PPC via MacOS booting, so > > > not familiar with it. > > > > > > > I will try to set up a MacOS guest in QEMU, to see if the hang can be > > reproduced that way. > > > > QEMU appears to be incompatible with the Old World ROM from the Beige G3. > 'qemu-system-ppc -M g3beige -bios 78F57389.ROM -serial stdio' drops into a > ROM diagnostic menu and won't boot. > > I did get 'qemu-system-ppc -M mac99 ...' to boot into MacOS 9, by using > OpenBIOS instead of Apple firmware. Unforunately, BootX is not compatible > with this configuration, so it won't help. > > BootX is compatible with beige powermacs, but 'qemu-system-ppc -M g3beige' > with OpenBIOS fails to boot MacOS 9 ("MacOS: unable to find an interrupt > controller node"). > > OpenBIOS wouldn't boot a MacOS 8.1 CD-ROM either, but for different > reasons: both mac99 and g3beige failed with "No valid state has been set > by load or init-program".
Thanks for trying, I've copied Mark Cave-Ayland from Qemu in; he's down as the g3beige maintainer in qemu, he might have a hint. Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux | Happy \ \ dave @ treblig.org | | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/
