<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 27, 2018, at 7:33 AM, BALATON Zoltan <<a href="mailto:balaton@eik.bme.hu" class="">balaton@eik.bme.hu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Sat, 27 Jan 2018, Jd Lyons via OpenBIOS wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Jan 22 2018 11:12<br class=""><br class="">0 > boot hd:10,\ppc\bootx >> switching to new context:<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Mac OS X Loader<br class="">depthbytes isn't unique.<br class="">rowbytes isn't unique.<br class="">FILL-RECTANGLE isn't unique.<br class="">Opening partition [/pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@20000/disk@0:10]...<br class="">HFSInitPartition: 2fc5b254<br class="">Loading HFS+ file: [\\com.apple.Boot.plist] from 2fc5b254.<br class="">setting boot-uuid to: CF9C6A60-A576-362A-A46B-5CF31493B8F0<br class="">non-root file owner detected: 501<br class="">non-root file owner detected: 501<br class="">non-root file owner detected: 501<br class="">non-root file owner detected: 501<br class="">non-root file owner detected: 501<br class="">non-root file owner detected: 501<br class="">non-root file owner detected: 501<br class="">non-root file owner detected: 501<br class="">non-root file owner detected: 501<br class="">Reading HFS+ file: [\\mach_kernel] from 2fc5b254.<br class="">setting boot-uuid to: CF9C6A60-A576-362A-A46B-5CF31493B8F0<br class="">non-root file owner detected: 501<br class="">Loading HFS+ file: [\System\Library\Caches\com.apple.kernelcaches\kernelcache.D57A14F7] from 2fc5b254.<br class=""><br class="">Call Kernel!<br class="">FailToBoot: 6<br class="">ENTER<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">So maybe you're looking for the problem at the wrong place when debugging BootX. It says it has transferred execution to the loaded kernel and it's the kernel which failed. Does the kernel version you're trying to boot support this CPU type at all?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I’m not sure with the 7448, it was used it some upgrades for Powermac G4’s from third parties. I’ll have to check what OS’s there where compatible with. I think it’s just a 7447a with double the L2 cache.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>
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</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">Mac OS 9.2.2 or Mac OS X 10.3.5 (oor later)) is required for all models..
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">Mac OS X 10.3.8 or later is recommended..
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">This package contains::
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">• Newer Technology MAXPower G4 upgrade card,, heat sink with fan and power connector
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">• CD--RROM with manual and frmware installation
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">• A magnetized Phillips screwdriver</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 24.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">IMPORTANT::
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 24.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class=""> This upgrade
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</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 24.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class=""> the
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</span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span style="font-size: 24.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">Newer Technology 7447A//77448 Firmware Update
</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-size: 24.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">
</span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span style="font-size: 24.000000pt; font-family: 'MyriadPro'; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">provided on CD or it WILL NOT WORK..
</span></p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class=""><a href="https://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/manuals/newertech/maxpower/nwtmang4max.pdf" class="">https://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/manuals/newertech/maxpower/nwtmang4max.pdf</a></p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class=""><font face="MyriadPro" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">So I </b></span><b class="">wondering if someone used an old firmware as the reference in qemu-ppc when support for booting OS X was added. Maybe there is some magic we need to boot from the 7450/7455/7447a/7448.</b></font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was able to boot a custom kernel that someone had added 604 support for Tiger( 10.4.8 ), with the 7448 in qemu-ppc.</div>
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