#MAC OS 10.0 RUNNING ON SHEEPSHAVER MAC OS#

#MAC OS 10.0 RUNNING ON SHEEPSHAVER MAC OS#

So I did that and it low and behold Mac OS 8.6 started to boot on the Pismo however near the end of booting from the installer CD the machine would just turn off without warning so I took the HDD and manually installed 8.6 to the HDD and re did the above steps this time booting from HDD and it booted all the way to the desktop. now I had to get around this the easiest way to do this was simply to change the PowerBook3,1 listing in the compatible property in OF to PoweBook2,1 for that boot session (it is possible to make it persistent but thats for another time)

but if say you tried to boot it on a PowerBook G3 Pismo it would abort as it would go to check the compatible listing in OF and pull up PowerBook3,1 and abort as thats not in the compatible list. So on any of the machines the Sawtooth image of 8.6 would boot up fine. iMac,1 PowerMac1,1 PowerBook1,1 PowerMac2,1 PowerMac3,1 PowerBook2,1. and the machine IDs it checks for before counting to load if found or aborting if not found are. so instead of checking if Just MacRISC or MacRISC2 is there it has a list of model IDs it checks for. now later Mac OS ROM images and BootX check just for the MacRISC, MacRISC2, MacRISC3 or MacRISC4 compatible property.īut this image of Mac OS 8.6s ROM image has a much more specific check in that it has a list of compatible Model identifiers in the compatible check rather then just a Generic overall machine class compatible check. The Mac OS ROM included with this image of 8.6 is different to later Mac OS ROMs in that it has a much more specific machine check that is run when loading from OF then later Mac OS ROMs (and in OS Xs BootX for that matter) see when the Mac OS ROM image or BootX is loaded in OF they run a small script at the start to check the 'compatible' property in the Root of the open firmware device tree. Now my goal with it was to try and get it running on computers that shipped with 9.x so with that said here is what I found out. So to start the Mac OS 8.6 image im working with here is the as far as i know the last 8.6 image apple put out which was the image for the Sawtooth. So over the past couple weeks I have been playing with Mac OS 8.6 and i figured id just post my findings

Mac os 10.0 running on sheepshaver