Booting Mac Os 9 on 1 Ghz 17" Powerbook G4 a "preliminary study"

[Fizzgig]

Okay, updates!   

"Let 1k Windows Bloom" took 3 seconds. I was rather baffled by it until I got the results and realized what all those flickering windows were about!  This is with 512 MB of RAM, which is what the machine came to me with (and more than I've ever needed pre-OS-X, honestly… though sticking in 2 GB at some point does sound fun!). Virtual memory is off and I've already tweaked my extensions and such a fair bit—one of my favorite ways to streamline and/or customize! Maybe I should post a list at some point.

No sign of the ambient light sensor or keyboard backlight working, alas. I don't think I actually own any Firewire devices, so someone else will have to test that, sorry!

[Protools5LEGuy]

Have  you another mac? Every new world mac iS a firewire device in target disk mode.

[Protools5LEGuy]

MacTron I have that machine and DID have the 'Unsupported' 9.2.2 running on it, booted from external FW drive. I just received a SSD that I'm going to install within the next few days and planned on putting 9.2.2 on it.

Did you use The FW 400 port or the 800?

[Protools5LEGuy]

We really have to make a section and post all real world results of all "un-supported" G4s.

iMic and I did get some notes together, these are from our public download page...

Model Specific Hardware Notes:
1. Apple Power Macintosh G4 1.25 DP (FW 800) (Identifiers: M8570, M8840LL/A, Firewire 800, PowerMac3,6)
Firewire 800 ports are seen as FW400 ports are FW400 ports are Not recognized, all other hardware functions as normal

2. Apple Power Macintosh G4 1.42 DP (FW 800) (Identifiers: M8570, M8840LL/A, Firewire 800, PowerMac3,6)
Firewire 800 ports are seen as FW400 ports are FW400 ports are Not recognized, all other hardware functions as normal

3. Apple PowerBook G4 867 12" (Al) (Identifiers: A1010, M8760LL/A, PowerBook6,1)
Sound comes thru headphones, but not speakers

But we really need a consolidated Sticky Note Post with all the key info. for each model.

The Holy Grail of unsupported PowerBooks, Apple PowerBook G4 1.0 17":
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.0_17.html
has some notes from members, but unfortunately, I no longer have one of these around to really put to the test with Audio and Video apps.  IMO, this unit is the most amazing portable asset under OS9 if Video acceleration proves to work and is documented.

Fizzgig reports 3 seconds in the 1kWindows test. Can we assume 2D is working?

The Audio working thru headphones seems to affect ALL ALU PowerBooks on OS 9.

mrhappy has used the FW port. But we don't know wich.