Help with Mac 0S 9.0.4

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Kmudle
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Help with Mac 0S 9.0.4

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Hello all,

I've been having a bit of trouble getting Mac 9.0.4 to install on qemu.

I'm using this disc image, as recommended in the guides: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/139 ... 3-firewire

But I'm still getting the "macos: unable to find a usable nvram partition" error:

Image

Here are the contents of my qemu.command file:

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#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"

./qemu-system-ppc \
-L pc-bios \
-M mac99 \
-display cocoa \
-m 512 \
-boot d \
-drive file=MacOS9.toast,format=raw,media=cdrom \
-drive file=MacOS9.img,format=raw,media=disk
Any advice is appreciated!
Last edited by Kmudle on Mon Feb 27, 2023 1:28 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Help with Mac 0S 9.0.4

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Hi,

These messages are harmless. We all have them ;-)
As long as the CD boots and you can install, you are OK.

The "call-method get-key-map" message will disappear in a future version.

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Re: Help with Mac 0S 9.0.4

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Cat_7 wrote: Sun Feb 26, 2023 8:38 am Hi,

These messages are harmless. We all have them ;-)
As long as the CD boots and you can install, you are OK.

The "call-method get-key-map" message will disappear in a future version.

Best,
Cat_7
Thanks for the fast reply! But that is exactly the problem... the screen just hangs on this message and does not progress to the install. Am I misunderstanding this step of the set up?
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Re: Help with Mac 0S 9.0.4

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Ah,

Perhaps the CD image is not bootable. Get the 9.0.4 image for the cube from the macintoshgarden site. That works well.

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Re: Help with Mac 0S 9.0.4

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Cat_7 wrote: Mon Feb 27, 2023 12:27 pm Perhaps the CD image is not bootable. Get the 9.0.4 image for the cube from the macintoshgarden site. That works well.
You were right, it was the image. I was using the cube from the macrepository instead of macintoshgarden. The macintoshgarden image did boot. Thank you!

However, now I'm running into a new issue where the emulator is not recognizing my mouse inputs... it recognizes my keyboard inputs, but not the mouse. Is this a common issue? It's making it impossible for me to complete the install of the OS since I can't double click anything inside the GUI.
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Re: Help with Mac 0S 9.0.4

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The mouse not working could be due to a problem with USB.
Did you change anything on the command line? For Mac OS 9.0.4 you need to use -M mac99, not e.g. -M mac99,via=pmu.

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Re: Help with Mac 0S 9.0.4

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You were right again, thank you so much Cat_7!
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