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Boot without the "Mac OS 9 Drivers"

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vad12:
Hi, I tried ataboot.py on my Mac OS ROM for OS 9.2.2 on my Sawtooth. I think this hard drive with Mac OS 9 has a corrupted Apple_Driver partitions setup, so I figured I'd give this a shot. The patch seems to apply correctly. I still got the flashing '?' folder icon when I tried booting into Mac OS 9, though.

I know the ROM itself shouldn't be corrupted because I have the exact same copy on the original cloned hard drive, and that copy of Mac OS 9 does boot the usual way (with the Apple Drivers partitions). The partition maps between both drives are very different now though, with just the Mac OS 9 not booting on the current "problem" drive. Mac OS 9 did boot on this drive when originally cloned, though.

My particular problem might end up in its own forum topic, but I was wondering if anyone has gotten this patch to work on any other machine than the Mac Mini?

Also, when I tested, I did have both drives connected at the same time. Does this patch require the hard drive to be the 1st or the only connected drive?

Thanks!

zefrenchtoon:
Fun to see ELN cited in this blog post:

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-brief-dive-into-power-mac-inits-and.html

 -afro-

Metrophage:
Brilliant! Thanks for doing this. I've often wondered what that driver was supposedly for and if there was a way around it.

When I got v9 of Ross' CD this was what jumped out at me most.

IIO:
they day they included the HD driver right in the ROM file was when 37 new synapse were formed in my brain.

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