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Hacking the System, Mac OS 9.3, and Beyond ! / Re: Boot without the "Mac OS 9 Drivers"
« Last post by vaccinemedia on Today at 09:22:37 AM »OK - I've just found out that UTM on the Mac does not allow you to boot from a drive with multiple partitions or at least I can't figure it out. I created a G4 Mac99 machine, booted the Tiger DVD and used disk utility to create two partitions: 1 2GB for OS9 and the rest for Tiger. Tiger installed at about the same speed as my PowerBookG4 which was nice. But on reboot it fails at the OpenBIOS stage. It looks like it's because OpenBIOS is expecting only one partition so it tries to boot from disk:,\\:tbxi and not disk:2,\\:tbxi which Tiger is installed on. I'm assuming it's disk:2 anyway as I can't remember if partitions start from 0 or 1
I'd issue the boot command to boot from the Tiger partition but UTM OpenBIOS is not allowing my to type at all. So I'm currently looking to see if UTM actually supports HardDrive files which have more than one partition. I may try with two separate disk images and make sure the OS9 one is formatted by Tiger WITHOUT the OS9 drivers.....
I'd issue the boot command to boot from the Tiger partition but UTM OpenBIOS is not allowing my to type at all. So I'm currently looking to see if UTM actually supports HardDrive files which have more than one partition. I may try with two separate disk images and make sure the OS9 one is formatted by Tiger WITHOUT the OS9 drivers.....