Mac OS 9 Lives
Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Topic started by: Cheesehead on December 08, 2018, 05:55:56 AM
-
After fooling around with Ubuntu on my Power Mac G4 "Quicksilver" and having zapped the PRAM, I can no longer boot into the Mac OS 9.2.2 (Universal) installation disk, or any other version of OS 9, except through Classic in OS X Tiger. What have I done to my machine?
-
what version of ppc Ubuntu were you using? 10? 12? 14?
-
Xubuntu Desktop 16.04
-
After fooling around with Ubuntu on my Power Mac G4 "Quicksilver" and having zapped the PRAM, I can no longer boot into the Mac OS 9.2.2 (Universal) installation disk, or any other version of OS 9, except through Classic in OS X Tiger. What have I done to my machine?
Do you have Tiger installed on the same partition as OS 9?
Linux on a new world PPC boots via yaboot, it's normally installed to the second partition , and blessed with mighty penguin pee!
Having OS 9 and OS X on the same partition means only one can be blessed at a time, either /System/Library/CoreServices/:tbxi or /System Folder/:tbxi
You'll need to use the Startup Disk to bless OS 9 if you can only boot OS X.
-
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04/release/
april 2016
interesting. thanks for sharing
is firefox usable on a Quicksilver running this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw3CBryBWcY
-
No, I had everything on separate partitions, Tiger, Mac OS 9.2.2, and Xubuntu. Problem was, after I installed Xubuntu I could no longer boot anything in OS 9.2.2, even an install CD. I think Xubuntu messed with the firmware on my MaxPower G4 processor upgrade. I'm going to find the firmware disk to fix that and install Mac OS 9.2.2 on a separate drive. One is coming from Other World Computing.
-
Yes, Xubuntu Firefox worked fine because I have a 1.6 GHz processor on this old beast.