Hi there, I have a G4-Cube with R128pro and original Apple Studio Display. I would love to setup a Quad-Boot machine, but I ran into some boot and configuaration problems. Perphaps here are some smart people that can give me some tips on that. So thank you!
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G4-Cube Quad-Boot (OS9.0.4/OSX10.2.8/YDL/MOS)
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Getting OS9 beside OSX is not a big problem. I also managed to get YDL3 and use yaboot to switch between these three systems.
On main issue came when I put out the harddrive and went for an IDE2SSD Adapter with 128GB SSD. It works very well, but there is one small issue and that is when changing the os to boot I always go into one reboot that stucks and the SSD is not found. Another reboot and it works as it should, it boots the OS that I have chosen before. I cant figure out where this issue comes from but it's 100% reproducible. It's not a very big deal but it would be nice if I could manage to get this away.
On main issue came when I put out the harddrive and went for an IDE2SSD Adapter with 128GB SSD. It works very well, but there is one small issue and that is when changing the os to boot I always go into one reboot that stucks and the SSD is not found. Another reboot and it works as it should, it boots the OS that I have chosen before. I cant figure out where this issue comes from but it's 100% reproducible. It's not a very big deal but it would be nice if I could manage to get this away.
Getting MOS along with MacOS9.0.4 is a big problem. I did several clean installs and even on a g4-mini it works, but that is 9.2.2 and 9.0.4 seems to be different on the hard-diskdrivers. As MOS is currently patched to work with my setup R128pro-AppleStudio-Display even MOS is actuall not my main problem. I will boot via OF with ENET from the TFTP-Server on my NAS. This worked before the only thing I will change is not using a USB-Stick for the MOS System and therefore one internal SFS partition on the internal SSD.
Actual I am a bit frustrated with YDL 3.0.1. because my cube only has a CDROM and booting YDL-DVD from external FW-DVD does not work. YDL3 works great but the rag128pro is not used, it's only a fwxx-driver and therefore no hardware-acc, I changed it to "R128" now it does not start the gdm-anymore. Perhaps someone could help me out getting a fast linux on my G$-cube with working sound and gfx-acc. So thank you!
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@kokakoda wrote an excellent guide that many of us wouldn't have the patience to do it. The only difference for your Original Post it's that he suggest Macbuntu instead of YDL. So please follow it, it's very detailed and worked fine.
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@kokakoda wrote an excellent guide that many of us wouldn't have the patience to do it. The only difference for your Original Post it's that he suggest Macbuntu instead of YDL. So please follow it, it's very detailed and worked fine.
HOWTO: Quad booting a Mini (OS9, OSX, Linux, MorphOS)
Hey guys, first post here and it's gonna be a bit of a monster... I couldn't find a unified guide on all this anywhere, so here it is. I hope it helps someone avoid the frustrations I had. I'm intentionally being verbose here so this is as approachable as possible, sorry if sometimes it seems...
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There are some tricky parts on this and as I wrote I get it working on G4-Mini but not on g4-cube because there is no software-restore and the installer updates the OS9-driver on the disk.
beside that I cannot use DVD to boot from. but I will make an attempt on this again.
beside that I cannot use DVD to boot from. but I will make an attempt on this again.
I have a upgraded Cube but since I don't have enough time to use my own machines I'll plan to do somethings on this cube as well, but my flashed Geforce 6200 as far as I know doesn't support OS9 (I would like to use it for some old games and mayba some old software) and MorphOS don't like Nvidia GPU's (I don't like as well since it's so difficult to make it work outside their "blessed" original systems and it was the most powerful and compatible card that worked with the Cube) so that's another mod to the multi-boot guide.
But until this day all my G4's and iMac G5 I could boot to OS X Tiger and Leopard, Lubuntu 12 and 16, MorphOS, OpennBSD and Void Linux (I will test other OS when I get the time to do it), but even on the Cube USB boot worked because my DVD was fauty.
There is one simple way of getting MOS on the cube.
1. Install MOS on a USB-Stick with a G4-Mini or another machine
2. Put the Stick in the cube
3. copy the boot.img (ppc_32)to the TFTP on your NAS
4. use openfirmware on the cube and boot it up via "boot enet:192.xxx.x.xx,boot.img"
As you mentioned you have to use a ati-card for mos.
1. Install MOS on a USB-Stick with a G4-Mini or another machine
2. Put the Stick in the cube
3. copy the boot.img (ppc_32)to the TFTP on your NAS
4. use openfirmware on the cube and boot it up via "boot enet:192.xxx.x.xx,boot.img"
As you mentioned you have to use a ati-card for mos.
I think that you are complicating too much to boot MorphOS (Need a NAS, and another PowerPC Mac) but everyone it's free to do whatever wanna do with their spare time.
I believe that every PowerPC Mac it's able to boot from firewire and so far my G4 PowerBooks, G4 Cube and iMac G5 flawlessly booted from the OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro and they worked with USB booting as well* (there's a caveat since the PowerBooks doesn't have that much juice to power any USB HDD that I tried before, I use an StarTech 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub)
But you can boot MorphOS from USB following the guide (if you have an USB stick that it's compatible, because some members in the forum complained that some of their sticks refused to work, but since I only have "old 2.0 sticks" all of them worked so far)
In my opinion this OF enet boot is very simple and beside that you can simply copy the files from the mos-cd to the stick after beeing partitoned from MOS.