Qemu won't boot my Mac OS X 10.4 installation disc

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Qemu won't boot my Mac OS X 10.4 installation disc

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Hi

Qemu wont run or boot up my Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) installation disc. I edited the Qemu.bat file to boot the disc (eg. using boot d instead of boot c, And putting the CD Image entry (-drive file=Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Retail DVD.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom ^) Before the hard disk entry) But when I start the qemu.bat file, qemu crashes. I don't know how to possibly fix this problem, but help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my full qemu.bat file
qemu-system-ppc.exe ^
-L pc-bios ^
-M mac99,via=pmu ^
-m 512 ^
-sdl ^
-boot d ^
-drive file=Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Retail DVD.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom ^
-drive file=MacOS10.4.img,format=raw,media=disk


Thanks.
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Re: Qemu won't boot my Mac OS X 10.4 installation disc

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Hi,

I suspect that is due to the line: -sdl
This option has been removed, it should now read: -display sdl

Our guide was not updated to reflect that change.
It is now.

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Re: Qemu won't boot my Mac OS X 10.4 installation disc

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Cat_7 wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:27 am Hi,

I suspect that is due to the line: -sdl
This option has been removed, it should now read: -display sdl

Our guide was not updated to reflect that change.
It is now.

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Cat_7
I tried it but unfortunately it didn't work.
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Re: Qemu won't boot my Mac OS X 10.4 installation disc

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Hi,

You can run Qemu from a command window to see the error it reports.
Have you tried renaming the iso so it has no spaces in its name and use that in the batch file?

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Re: Qemu won't boot my Mac OS X 10.4 installation disc

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Cat_7 wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:06 am Hi,

You can run Qemu from a command window to see the error it reports.
Have you tried renaming the iso so it has no spaces in its name and use that in the batch file?

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Cat_7
Well I downloaded another iso from a different source and it works now.
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