I am attempting to emulate a Macintosh IIci in MESS. The host machine is a PC running 64bit Windows 7. I am interested in booting from a disk image I have of a 40M hard drive that was pulled from a Macintosh IIci. I am able to boot from this raw image in Basillisk II.
I converted the raw image to a CHD using chdman:
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chdman createhd -i Macintosh_IIci.raw -o Macintosh_IIci.chd
This seems to succeed, with chdman outputting the following:
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Output CHD: Macintosh_IIci.chd
Input file: Macintosh_IIci.raw
Compression: lzma <LZMA>, zlib <Deflate>, huff <Huffman>, flac <FLAC>
Cylinders: 100
Heads: 16
Sectors: 50
Bytes/sector: 512
Sectors/hunk: 8
Logical size: 40,960,000
Compression complete ... final ratio = 10.6%
I then try to boot the machine with the following:
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mess64 maciici -hard1 Macintosh_IIci.chd
MESS launches, I hear the Mac IIci startup chime, and eventually I get the flashing floppy disk with a question mark. Am I missing something? Why is the machine not seeing the hard drive as a viable startup disk? The original raw image boots in Basilisk II and Mini vMac…