E-Maculation

Hello.

I am having an issue getting OS 9.2.2 installed. Every time I try to initialize a new hard drive it fails and than QEMU freezes. I got it to work once with no issues after adding ,cache=writeback and had it up and running, but I wanted to make a new, bigger hard drive. It has failed every time since than. Most frustrating of all, I accidentally wrote over the .img that was working so I am at square one again. My qemu.bat looks like this:

qemu-system-ppc.exe -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99,via=pmu -m 512 ^
-prom-env "auto-boot?=true" -prom-env "boot-args=-v" -prom-env "vga-ndrv?=true" ^
-drive file=MacOS9.2.2.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom ^
-drive file=MacOS9.2.2.img,format=raw,media=disk,cache=writeback ^
-sdl ^
-netdev user,id=network01 -device sungem,netdev=network01 ^
-device VGA,edid=on ^

Hi, and welcome,

From where did you get Qemu, which version is it?
How big is the disk image you created? Is your host Windows 10?

Best,
Cat_7

I have version 4.1-06-09-2019. I got it from the surfdrive link from the https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewt ... =34&t=9028 thread. I am using Windows 10.

I see,

This unusual. However, in the past running Qemu on Windows 10 suffered from this problem. It could be solved then by running qemu-system-ppc in Windows 7 compatibility mode.

How big is the image you try to initialize?

You might also try one of the experimental builds, particularly the one dated 11-05-2020:
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.p ... g/download

Best,
Cat_7

Well, I've tried setting it to Windows 7 compatibility mode and tried the 11-05-2020 experimental build in Windows 7 compatibility mode, but it keeps failing to initialize the hard drive and locking up. The image I just tried was 100 GB, but it was doing the same for a 2 GB one previously.

As posted in another thread, this bootable image (MacOS 9.2) is still online:
https://www.magentacloud.de/lnk/zq4MpCru
Please feel free to try.

Well that definitely works. Now I can use it at least. I can keep trying to see if I can get my own, but this gets me in there at least. Thanks!

You might duplicate the boot disk image in Windows, mount it as second device for QemuPPC and format HFS/HFS+ to see whether that is working as it should.

Well, formatting a copy if the boot disk image worked. Trying to format a .image file still causes a hangup. Doing a .qcow2 file on the other hand works even with one set to 100 GB, so I'm just going to use that.