Boot Problems with OS 8.6 ROM

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Boot Problems with OS 8.6 ROM

Post by TheDarkX »

I've got the ROM from the OS 8.6 (or the update), and SheepShaver for Windows (unfortunately).

I've tried the PPC Boot Disk for 8.1, the 7.6 Boot Disk and the 8.5 Disk Tools disk, but nothing seems to work.

Can somebody point me to a new world boot disk from 8.6 or 9?
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Post by Cat_7 »

Hi,

It seems only the rom from the mac os rom update (1.6) is able to start SheepShaver at the moment. You can get it from apple downloads. You have to extract the actual rom file with either basiliskII and tomeviewer, or a real mac.

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Post by TheDarkX »

yea, thats the one ive got. I need to know how to boot the system so I can install something.
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Post by Cat_7 »

Post your preferences file here so we can take a look.

btw: SheepShaver for Windows only runs Mac OS 8.5 and higher.

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Post by TheDarkX »

Here you go, with this config the rom starts to load the disk and then just closes...

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nosound false
nogui false
noclipconversion false
ignoresegv true
idlewait true
seriala file
serialb file
nonet false
jit true
jit68k false
frameskip 0
ramsize 67108864
rom c:\documents and settings\****\my documents\sheepshaver\macos8.6.rom
windowmodes 3
screenmodes 63
gfxaccel true
disk C:\Documents and Settings\****\My Documents\SheepShaver\DTools85.dsk
disk c:\documents and settings\****\my documents\sheepshaver\mydisk.dsk
nocdrom false
bootdrive 0
bootdriver 0
pollmedia true
enableextfs false
debugextfs false
extdrives 
keyboardtype 5
keycodes false
mousewheelmode 1
mousewheellines 3
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Post by TheDarkX »

Also, here is the contents of the stderr.txt file after it shuts down (not that its any help, can you read it?)

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SIGSEGV
  pc 00455319
  ea 42DF1200
 r0 00000000   r1 22ff7dba   r2 00000000   r3 23000400
 r4 00002278   r5 fffffffa   r6 00004e75   r7 ffffffe8
 r8 00000000   r9 00000028  r10 0000006c  r11 2200715e
r12 00000000  r13 00000000  r14 200031fc  r15 21ffec00
r16 200bbfa8  r17 000013ff  r18 200bb378  r19 40814c1e
r20 22ff7dcc  r21 23000190  r22 23000400  r23 00000000
r24 00001401  r25 00000020  r26 00000000  r27 ffff876e
r28 00000000  r29 40df1200  r30 40c60000  r31 68fff000
 f0 0.00000   f1 0.00000   f2 0.00000   f3 0.00000
 f4 0.00000   f5 0.00000   f6 0.00000   f7 0.00000
 f8 0.00000   f9 0.00000  f10 0.00000  f11 0.00000
f12 0.00000  f13 0.00000  f14 0.00000  f15 0.00000
f16 0.00000  f17 0.00000  f18 0.00000  f19 0.00000
f20 0.00000  f21 0.00000  f22 0.00000  f23 0.00000
f24 0.00000  f25 0.00000  f26 0.00000  f27 0.00000
f28 0.00000  f29 0.00000  f30 0.00000  f31 0.00000
 lr 40df1200  ctr 00000000   cr 40501c22  xer 00000000
 pc 40df1200 fpscr 00000000
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Post by Mac Emu »

Elsewhere it was discovered that the OS 8.5 boot floppy apparently doesn't work on SheepShaver. The CD-ROM is needed.
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Post by TheDarkX »

Hmm, does any other boot floppy work? If they do, can someone point me to link to one?
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Post by Mac Emu »

Older boot floppies might work (like OS 8.1 PPC), but you would need an appropriate Old World ROM to do that.

I don't think I saw a OS 9.x boot floppy image on my Universal OS 9.0.4 CD. Doubt there is an OS 8.6 boot floppy either. It would be neat if the OS 8.5 boot floppy worked as anyone could download the New World ROM and floppy image and use SheepShaver.
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