SheepShaver ROM Troubles (Not A Request)

[jhkl]

Hello everyone,

After fooling around with PearPC for awhile, I decided to try SheepShaver, seeing if I could get the old 7.5.3 free Mac distribution to boot. The problem is that I have run into a little complication with regards to the ROM file. Every time I try to boot SheepShaver I get the error message about the fact that the ROM needs to be 4 MB in size and from a PCI-based PowerMac.

I believe that people have stated that the following ROMs will work:

- MacOS ROM 1.1.2 from MacOS 8.5
- MacOS ROM 1.2.1 from "iMac Update 1.1"
- MacOS ROM 1.4 from MacOS 8.6
- MacOS ROM 1.6 from "MacOS ROM Update 1.0"

Of those, I have tried the MacOS ROM 1.2.1 from iMac Update 1.1 (3.5 MB in size), MacOS ROM 1.6 (about 2 MB in size), and I've even tried the PowerMac G4 ROM update from Apple (it's under 4 MB as well).

All of them give the same error message, so I was just wondering if anyone here has had any luck with the free ROM files. If so, how exactly did you get it to work.

Thanks in advance,
David

[jhkl]

OK. Never mind. The solution just hit me after I had already posted this.

I was using HFVExplorer to extract the ROM file from my Windows Basilisk II OS 7.5.3 installation. Then I would go into Linux and copy the ROM file from the Windows partition to the Linux one. I guess something gets messed up in the process.

If you mount the HFV partition directly using "mount -t hfs yourhfvfile.hfv /mnt/yourlocation" and copy the ROM using that method, it works.

It's so simple, yet I've spent days trying to figure this one out.

Hope that helps someone who may be having the same troubles.

[ShadowFox]

Yes, sometimes the binary conversion and resource forks can do wonky things extracting within windows. When I did it, I just downloaded the files from Apple within Basilisk II (using IE 3.0), extracted them, and copied the uncompressed ROM to a folder on my hard drive (via the "my computer" option in BII), then copied via samba to my linux box. Worked like a charm for me.