[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku PPC


On 2 Dec 2008, at 16:55, kallisti5 wrote:



I'm curious. Why is there such a push for Haiku on ADB/old world macs?
G3 B&W (Blue and White) Macs tended to have ADB to begin with. ADB is a good idea in general, because there is working code kicking about the place. The stuff Be used was based on the MkLinux project, or so I have been told.
The Old world rom is buggy and most upgrades to old world machines are hacks 
(G3 processor in the L3 cache card slot, etc) limiting their Haiku
performance/functionality. (Requiring a boot to MacOS 9 before booting
Haiku, etc)
Not true. Most 603 and 604 desktop Macs in the 72xxx +, 82xxx + and 92xxx + series had their CPU's on daughter cards. All G3 and G4 upgrades simply slot in to the same CPU slots. The original G3 series (including the Power Books) all have either daughter cards or ZIFF sockets. You can buy a beige G3 for under $20 and the hardware is dependable.
Instead of working around the dated/buggy old world rom, maybe it would be 
best to focus new world open firmware machines? (imac+ in age)
I shouldn't be an issue. A lot of people have done the hard work already by getting these Macs to boot OS X, a far choosier and mainly closed source OS.
I admit, i used to love having my Performa 6400, but now it is securely 
stashed in a closet.
Hmmm... 6400 was one of those odd Powemacs. My trusty old 9500 MP/180 still boots BeOS quite happily for me.
Just a thought. Old imac's are cheap and plentiful on ebay and would be 
a-lot less hackish/buggy :P
Not really. If you're going to buy something "worthwhile" you're still looking at more money than I'd be willing to put down on a used Mac. Where as I picked up a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet 2 for peanuts the other day. The Wallstreet runs Panther nicely and it's a very usable machine. I'd love to boot a BeOS alike OS on it. 

M

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