Oldworld Booting ================ To boot earlier version of MacOS than 8.6, an image of a supported boot-ROM is needed. Booting using a boot-ROM image is called oldworld booting. Note: MacOS 8.6 and later can be booted using a "newworld" ROM (a file in the System Folder). This is the (strongly) recommended way of booting MacOS. The rest of this document addresses oldworld booting though. Support ROM images ================== Images from one of the following computers are known to work: PowerMacintosh 7200, 7300, 7500, 7600, 8200, 8500, 9600 PowerCenter Pro Starmax 4160 Umax J700/180 Umax SuperMac C500 PowerBase 200 (180, 240) Performa 6400 Most (almost all) of the ROMs above can be used together with the 8500 oftree. ROM-images from the following machines *might* be usable: PowerMacintosh 7215, 8515, 9500, 9515. PowerMacintosh 8600 PowerMacintosh 5400 Umax SuperMac J710, C600 It is also *possible* that an image from one of the following machines work: Genesis LT, Power Macintosh 8600/200 PowerTower PowerTower Pro PowerTower Pro G3 PowerCurve Powerwave Umax SuperMac S900 Umax SuperMac J700 Genesis MP Millennium G3, 604 ROM images from other machines with the Catalyst, Nitro or Tsunami architecture might also work (try these ROMs also with the 8500 oftree). There is a ROM grabbing utility on the ftp-site: ftp://ftp.nada.kth.se/home/f95-sry/Public/mac-on-linux/ If no ROM-image is specified, the built-in ROM will be used (which probably won't work unless MOL is running on one of the supported machines). Using a Boot-ROM ================ First make sure /etc/mol/molrc.ow is included from /etc/mol/molrc. Secondly, specify the location of the ROM-image in /etc/mol/molrc.ow, for instance rom_image: rom/rom.8500 There is also another setting which might need some tuning: oftree: oftrees/oftree.8500 Most of the supported roms work well with the 8500 oftree. There are a few others in /usr/share/mol/0.9.XX/oftrees though.
