On Nov 23, 2015, at 4:00 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
On 22/11/15 17:39, Programmingkid wrote:
Hi Alfonso,
Has there been any progress at all as to which extensions may be causing the crashes?
Remove these extensions from the Extensions folder and Mac OS 9 will boot to the desktop:
Apple Audio Extension Apple Enet Multiprocessing folder Open Transport aslm modules Text Encoding Converter
Note: I used Cormac's Mac OS 9.2.1 iso file to do my testing.
Now this is definitely helpful. Just to confirm that the presence of any *one* of these modules causes boot to fail?
Yes. That is correct.
I've just done some testing here on my 9.2.2 ISO and I've found the following:
- Removing "Apple Audio Extension" appears to prevent some kind of
corruption which allows MacsBugs to give non-corrupt stack traces
The resulting stack trace points at "AINI 8042 05AE Startup ASLM PPC"
Further removing "Open Transport ASLM Modules" allows boot to proceed
nearly all the way except for a hang just before the progress bar reaches the end
- Finally removing "Multiprocessing" allows boot to proceed all the way
to the desktop
Alfonso/John can you confirm whether removing these 3 extensions works for your images too? If you are able to run the OS 9 installer all the way through and manually mount the hd images to remove them by hand before the next boot, do you end up with a bootable OS 9 HD image?
It does work for me, but an illegal instruction error took place when the desktop showed up. I could not do anything after the crash. Mac OS 9 does hang sometimes earlier in the boot process, so the above results are not consistent.
My info: Image: Mac OS 9.2.1 (Cormac's image) Macsbug 6.6.3 Host: Mac OS 10.6