[rescue] Mac Hints needed

Joost van de Griek joost at jvdg.net
Tue Nov 4 13:30:56 CST 2003


On 2003-11-04 19:36, Nathan Raymond wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> 
>> No version of Mac OS X will run on a non Open Firmware Mac. Panther (10.3)
>> will not boot on Old World Macs.
> 
> Actually if you have a PDS G3 accelerator that works with Linux/PPC
> running on a Nubus based pre-OF PPC Macs, then it should be possible to
> run OS X inside of Mac-On-Linux through it's support of loading a New
> World ROM from a file:
> 
> http://www.maconlinux.org/userguide/newworldrom.html

Mac OS X doesn't care for the New World ROM, so if the hardware is emulated
correctly, it will run Mac OS X. But going that route, I might as well claim
my Indy runs DOS since it has SoftWindows installed...

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