UTM: Getting “Guest has not initialized the display (yet).” on boot up

[DominikHoffmann]

I set up a UTM emulation VM per the instructions at https://tinyapps.org/docs/tiger-on-m1.html. When I boot up I get a screen that says

Guest has not initialized the display (yet).

It quickly disappears and is replaced by

which reads

Trying /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@20000/cdrom:,\\:tbxi...
No valid state has been set by load or init-program

Are there configuration changes I could make to get past that?

[adespoton]

I set up a UTM emulation VM per the instructions at https://tinyapps.org/docs/tiger-on-m1.html. When I boot up I get a screen that says

Guest has not initialized the display (yet).

It quickly disappears and is replaced by

which reads

Trying /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@20000/cdrom:,\\:tbxi...
No valid state has been set by load or init-program

Are there configuration changes I could make to get past that?

Are you using UTM 4.3 Beta? It uses QEMU 8.0.0 in a configuration known to have graphics initialization issues. There's problems with both x86_64 and PPC emulation.

Try rolling back to 4.2.x if this is a 4.3 beta issue.

If you're not using the beta, then you'll want to make sure you use an install image that can boot correctly.

I've got the config file at https://github.com/adespoton/utmconfigs that you can use; instructions are in the comments; you just need to provide a retail Tiger DVD image.

[DominikHoffmann]

It’s UTM 4.2.5.

I will look at your config. I appreciate your making it available!

[DominikHoffmann]

And now I am getting this:

QEMU exited from an error: gemu-ppc-softmmu: -device ide-
hd, bus=ide.2,drive=drive,bootindex=2:
Bus 'ide.2' not found

I don’t really know how to interpret that. The ISOs I am using had been converted by Disk Utility from DMGs that had been created in an earlier version of Disk Utility from the actual installation CD-ROMs.

[DominikHoffmann]

I've got the config file at https://github.com/adespoton/utmconfigs that you can use; instructions are in the comments; you just need to provide a retail Tiger DVD image.

Using your Tiger config I get the exact same yellow screen I got from the config I generated originally from the tinyapps document.

[adespoton]

I've got the config file at https://github.com/adespoton/utmconfigs that you can use; instructions are in the comments; you just need to provide a retail Tiger DVD image.

Using your Tiger config I get the exact same yellow screen I got from the config I generated originally from the tinyapps document.

Sounds like it's your Tiger image at fault then?

[DominikHoffmann]

Sounds like it's your Tiger image at fault then?

I downloaded a copy of the Tiger image from Macintosh Garden, which made it work. Somehow, my DVD to ISO process from years ago was faulty. I think, I may have done it with Disk Utility or Toast back then, and I may not have chosen the correct target file format.