Can't install Mac OS X Developer Preview 3

[vlad557776]

Hello. Recently I heard about Mac OS X Developer Preview and wanted to install it, especially Developer Preview 3 because it was the first version to introduce Aqua interface. But, I ran into a problem: QEMU hangs at BIOS stage of booting. Here's what BIOS says before it freeze:

Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Feb 15 2019 10:05
Trying cd:,\\:tbxi...
MacOS: unable to find a usable NVRAM partition - using offset 0x1400
call-method get-key-map: exception -21

After all of this QEMU hangs.
Can someone help me?

[Cat_7]

Hi,

We need your whole command line to be able to diagnose the problem.

Best,
Cat_7

[vlad557776]

Here's my qemu.bat file:

qemu-system-ppc.exe -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99,via=pmu -m 512 ^
-prom-env "auto-boot?=true" -prom-env "boot-args=-v" -prom-env "vga-ndrv?=true" ^
-drive file=MacOSXdp3.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom ^
-drive file=MacOSXDP3.img,format=raw,media=disk ^
-sdl ^
-netdev user,id=network01 -device sungem,netdev=network01 ^
-device VGA,edid=on ^
-m 256M

[Cat_7]

Hi,

I would start with removing that second -m parameter (your last line) and setting memory to 128Mb with -m 128 in the first line.
If that doesn't work, set -M mac99,via=pmu to -M mac99, and if that doesn't work, to -M g3beige

Best,
Cat_7

[vlad557776]

Now it's just crashing. I think I messed up the config.

Went to CMD and run qemu.bat: getting this error: qemu-system-ppc.exe: g3beige: Could not open 'g3beige': ╨Э╨╡ ╤Г╨┤╨░╨╡╤В╤Б╤П ╨╜╨░╨╣╤В╨╕ ╤Г╨║╨░╨╖╨░╨╜╨╜╤Л╨╣ ╤Д╨░╨╣╨╗.

[jonirob]

Try this command line, it works for me in Windows 10:


qemu-system-ppc.exe -L pc-bios -boot d -m 512 -M g3beige -cpu g3 -prom-env "boot-device=cd:9,\\:tbxi" -prom-env "boot-args=-v" -prom-env "vga-ndrv?=true" -drive file=MacOSXdp3.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom -drive file=MacOSXDP3.img,format=raw,media=disk -sdl -netdev user,id=network01 -device sungem,netdev=network01

[vlad557776]

Thanks, it booted up, but it don't recognize hard disk. Maybe I did something wrong?

[Cat_7]

The hard disk has to be pre-formatted from another installation. Perhaps you have 9.2 or 10.X installed? Add the disk to that and then format the disk with Mac OS Extended format.

Best,
Cat_7

[vlad557776]

Thanks. Have all of versions of Mac from System Software 1.0 to Mac OS 9.2.1, so it will be no problem for me.

[vlad557776]

Nah. Formatted it in MacOS 9.0.4, still the same thing. 9.2 didn't even recognize the disk.

Edit: Forced Mac OS 9.2 to recognize the disk using Disk Setup. Currently installing Developer Preview by himself. I'll post another message if it won't start.

[vlad557776]

It installed, but now I can't get QEMU to boot from the hard disk.

[jonirob]

Boot from the hard disk with:

qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -m 256 -hda ./MacOSXDP3.img -boot c -prom-env "auto-boot?=true" -M g3beige -cpu g3 -prom-env "boot-args=-v" -sdl

[vlad557776]

Thanks. Homever it's very laggy, programs are starting very slowly, I needed to boot it 4 times until it really boots (all the failed starts was stopped by Kernel Panic). I think that's Developer Preview fault. At least it's now fully installed.

[adespoton]

Yes, you're now experiencing DP3 the same way as the rest of us Part of it is some bits of QEMU that still need optimization, and instructions that still need to be implemented, but most of it is DP3 being DP3.