10.6 Snow Leopard PowerPC Development

[barracuda156]

Both Gnutar and BSD tar should be on the system as both are from the same 10.6.8 tree. The incorrect symlink is a trivial fix. Well spotted.

P. S. Please add this to TODO for the next update (we have a TODO, right?).

 

[ChrisCharman]

Indeed. Been extremely busy of late but will check in again soon hopefully.

 

[barracuda156]

Just FYI, gsocket works fine with 10.6.8 and has no issues, apparently, with a lack of udp or using utdns.
It can do what tmate promised but did not deliver, being broken.

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Basically you can connect any two machines, as long as both have some connection to internet and you have access to install the program. (I replaced the image with something better looking than a dark photo of the screen LOL.)
Works either way (from powerpc mac to any modern system and reverse), no special network setup.

By the way, this can be done from iPhone as well.

 

[barracuda156]

Indeed. Been extremely busy of late but will check in again soon hopefully.

For the reference, correct `bsdtar` is present in 10.6.8 Combo update. What our image has as bsdtar is gnutar stripped of i386 and x86_64 slices.

 

[Gamerabbit]

I attempted to install the Adobe CS4 Design application, but when I launched the installer, it didnt went further than asking the password again and again.
but on leopard it worked, so i know it isnt the installer problem, but why Snow Leopard struggle with this and how to make it work

 

[barracuda156]

I attempted to install the Adobe CS4 Design application, but when I launched the installer, it didnt went further than asking the password again and again.
but on leopard it worked, so i know it isnt the installer problem, but why Snow Leopard struggle with this and how to make it work

I can only say that InDesign CS4 works perfectly fine on 10a190. I did not try it on 10.6.8 yet.
Did you install all updates for it?

 

[Gamerabbit]

I cant even install the main part so I didn't tried updates (I have less that a gigabite of ram, maybe it is something to consider)

I also tried Logic Studio and Final Cut Studio but both dont even lunch the installer

 

[barracuda156]

I cant even install the main part so I didn't tried updates (I have less that a gigabite of ram, maybe it is something to consider)

I also tried Logic Studio and Final Cut Studio but both dont even lunch the installer

It is to be expected that some proprietary apps which never had 10.6 ppc in mind may fail to work or at least fail to work without hacks. It should be possible to cut out problematic checks from the binary.
However there is probably little benefit here, since these apps won’t take advantage of 10.6 SDK on PowerPC. I’d rather keep 10.6 for everything and 10.5 for old proprietary stuff, if disk space permits.

Alternatively, it may be possible to install on 10.6.8 Intel and transfer installation manually to 10.6.8 ppc. Presumably apps won’t strip out ppc slices during installation.

 

[Gamerabbit]

I have a dual Disk syetem, so i have a full Mac os Snow Leopard disk and one for sorbet leopard (i am not sure about the version.

Alternatively, it may be possible to install on 10.6.8 Intel and transfer installation manually to 10.6.8 ppc. Presumably apps won’t strip out ppc slices during installation.

I sadly dont have an old Intel Mac

10.5 for old proprietary stuff,

That I'm gonna do then

 

[barracuda156]

I have a dual Disk syetem, so i have a full Mac os Snow Leopard disk and one for sorbet leopard (i am not sure about the version.

I sadly dont have an old Intel Mac

That I'm gonna do then

“Sorbet Leopard” is 10.5, you should be good with that for Adobe.

I am not really sure, but in principle it may install in a VM with 10.6.8, then you don’t need an old Intel Mac.

P. S. It would be nice to have Adobe working on 10.6.8 ppc, but we need to look what exactly fails. Which error were you getting?

 

[Gamerabbit]

P. S. It would be nice to have Adobe working on 10.6.8 ppc, but we need to look what exactly fails. Which error were you getting?

No errors. just the prompt for admin password is asked in a loop, no matter how many times i wrote my password it would ask again (really sorry about the video, i did struggle to record that, i tried many times, gave my password but i came back every single time_

 

[barracuda156]

@educovas I will just put this here, so it is not forgotten. Possibly we have an issue with what OpenGL headers declare and what is actually available; this is the second case when I get the following error when linking is explicitly done to the OS frameworks, `-framework OpenGL -framework GLUT`:

Undefined symbols for architecture ppc:
  "_glBindFramebuffer", referenced from:
      _gf_sc_texture_enable_fbo in texturing_gl.o
      _compositor_3d_get_screen_buffer in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _compositor_3d_setup_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _compositor_3d_delete_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _compositor_3d_enable_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _wgl_bindFramebuffer in webgl.o
      _webgl_setup_fbo in webgl.o
      ...
  "_glBindRenderbuffer", referenced from:
      _compositor_3d_setup_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _wgl_bindRenderbuffer in webgl.o
      _webgl_setup_fbo in webgl.o
  "_glCheckFramebufferStatus", referenced from:
      _compositor_3d_setup_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _wgl_checkFramebufferStatus in webgl.o
      _webgl_setup_fbo in webgl.o
      _wgl_activate_gl in webgl.o
      _webgl_get_plane in webgl.o
  "_glDeleteFramebuffers", referenced from:
      _compositor_3d_delete_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _WebGLFramebuffer_finalize in webgl.o
      _webgl_setup_fbo in webgl.o
      _webgl_finalize in webgl.o
      _wgl_deleteFramebuffer in webgl.o
      _wgl_resize in webgl.o
  "_glDeleteRenderbuffers", referenced from:
      _compositor_3d_delete_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _WebGLRenderbuffer_finalize in webgl.o
      _webgl_setup_fbo in webgl.o
      _webgl_finalize in webgl.o
      _wgl_deleteRenderbuffer in webgl.o
      _wgl_resize in webgl.o
  "_glFramebufferRenderbuffer", referenced from:
      _compositor_3d_setup_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _webgl_setup_fbo in webgl.o
      _wgl_framebufferRenderbuffer in webgl.o
  "_glFramebufferTexture2D", referenced from:
      _compositor_3d_setup_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _wgl_framebufferTexture2D in webgl.o
      _webgl_setup_fbo in webgl.o
  "_glGenFramebuffers", referenced from:
      _compositor_3d_setup_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _webgl_setup_fbo in webgl.o
      _wgl_createFramebuffer in webgl.o
  "_glGenRenderbuffers", referenced from:
      _compositor_3d_setup_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _webgl_setup_fbo in webgl.o
      _wgl_createRenderbuffer in webgl.o
  "_glGenerateMipmap", referenced from:
      _wgl_generateMipmap in webgl.o
  "_glGetFramebufferAttachmentParameteriv", referenced from:
      _wgl_getFramebufferAttachmentParameter in webgl.o
  "_glGetRenderbufferParameteriv", referenced from:
      _wgl_getRenderbufferParameter in webgl.o
  "_glIsFramebuffer", referenced from:
      _wgl_isFramebuffer in webgl.o
  "_glIsRenderbuffer", referenced from:
      _wgl_isRenderbuffer in webgl.o
  "_glRenderbufferStorage", referenced from:
      _compositor_3d_setup_fbo in visual_manager_3d_gl.o
      _wgl_renderbufferStorage in webgl.o
      _webgl_setup_fbo in webgl.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture ppc
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [../bin/gcc/libgpac.dylib] Error 1

 

[Gamerabbit]

Is a good idea to update those three ?

 

[barracuda156]

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Is a good idea to update those three ?

Well, if you want to make them unusable…

P. S. Java is useless anyway, so that part won’t matter.

 

[ChrisCharman]

View attachment 2511106
Is a good idea to update those three ?

No. It is recommended to disable and/or ignore official Apple Software Updates designed for Snow Leopard as many of them contain binaries specifically optimised for intel architectures and will break a PowerPC Snow Leopard system.

If you want to explore individual updates, download them directly, meaning not via the Software Update application, and examine the components of the update packages - if they are Universal Binaries then they *may* work as is.

If you decide to explore further updates than have already been explored and integrated into the release images then please report findings here, if there is a benefit and it is reproducible then we can include the improvements in a future SLPPC community update, or others can follow the steps and replicate for themselves if they choose.

 

[barracuda156]

@educovas @ChrisCharman Could someone take a look? For some reason our image of 10.6.8 lacks some symbols in AudioToolBox framework (perhaps it was borrowed from 10a190? why?). Looks at the following:

dyld: _dyld_bind_fully_image_containing_address() error
dyld: Symbol not found: _ID3ParserClose
  Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MediaToolbox.framework/Versions/A/MediaToolbox
  Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox

Basically, a binary linked to `MediaToolbox` is unusable. Indeed, the symbol is missing:

$ nm /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MediaToolbox.framework/Versions/A/MediaToolbox | grep ID3Parser
         U _ID3ParserClose
         U _ID3ParserGetProperty
         U _ID3ParserOpen

$ nm /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox | grep ID3
00022a3c t __Z28FillInfoDictionaryFromID3TagP14CACFDictionaryP12ID3TagParser
0006a318 t __Z7ID3SizemPKhRi
00021a00 t __ZN11ID3TagState12GetFrameInfoEPhmR12ID3FrameDatam
00020a4c t __ZN11ID3TagState12GetFrameSizeEPhm
00022648 t __ZN11ID3TagState13IsLyricsFrameEPvm
00021f18 t __ZN11ID3TagState17CreateFrameStringEPvm
00021760 t __ZN11ID3TagState17GetLyricFrameInfoEPhmR12ID3FrameData
000204a4 t __ZN11ID3TagState4InitEv
0001f45c t __ZN11ID3TagStateC1ER11V2TagHeader
00022bd8 t __ZN11ID3TagStateD0Ev
00022bfc t __ZN11ID3TagStateD1Ev
0001f9c0 t __ZN12ID3TagParser12CopyV1StringEm
00020f78 t __ZN12ID3TagParser12GetFrameInfoEPhmR12ID3FrameDatam
000211a0 t __ZN12ID3TagParser13FillFrameListEv
000214c8 t __ZN12ID3TagParser15CopyFrameStringEm
00020afc t __ZN12ID3TagParser17GetLyricFrameInfoEPhmR12ID3FrameData
0001fee0 t __ZN12ID3TagParser25CopyV2FrameStringForEntryEP13ID3FrameEntry
00022770 t __ZN12ID3TagParser27CopyFrameStringToDictionaryEP14CACFDictionaryPK10__CFStringm
00020d4c t __ZN12ID3TagParser4InitEv
0001f41c t __ZN12ID3TagParserC1EP10DataSourcex
0002074c t __ZN12ID3TagParserC1EPvmx
00020650 t __ZN12ID3TagParserC2EPvmx
00020994 t __ZN12ID3TagParserD1Ev
000f7474 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat11GetHFSCodesEPmPv
000f745c t __ZN13ID3FileFormat13GetExtensionsEPPK9__CFArray
000f7468 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat15GetFileTypeNameEPPK10__CFString
000f6788 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat20FileDataIsThisFormatEmPKv
000f7454 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat21ExtensionIsThisFormatEPK10__CFString
000f7484 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat21GetAvailableFormatIDsEPmPv
000f7494 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat30GetAvailableStreamDescriptionsEmPmPv
000f744c t __ZN13ID3FileFormat3NewEv
000f6980 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat9NewStreamEv
000f74a4 t __ZN13ID3FileFormatD0Ev
000f74ec t __ZN13ID3FileFormatD1Ev
000f6844 t __ZN13ID3FileStream11GetPropertyEmPmPv
000f69f4 t __ZN13ID3FileStream11ParseHeaderER27AudioFileStreamContinuation
000f6800 t __ZN13ID3FileStream15GetPropertyInfoEmPmPh
000f6878 t __ZN13ID3FileStreamD0Ev
000f6900 t __ZN13ID3FileStreamD1Ev
00022130 t __ZN13ID3TagParser213FillFrameListEv
00021c28 t __ZN13ID3TagParser214FillDictionaryEP14CACFDictionary
0001fd08 t __ZN13ID3TagParser227CreateV2FrameStringForEntryEP13ID3FrameEntry
0002246c t __ZN13ID3TagParser24InitEv
0002064c t __ZN13ID3TagParser2C1EPvmxb
00020550 t __ZN13ID3TagParser2C2EPvmxb
000207b0 t __ZN13ID3TagParser2D0Ev
000208a4 t __ZN13ID3TagParser2D1Ev
00061a18 t __ZN13MPEGAudioFile12ParseID3TagsEv
00149a9c s __ZTI11ID3TagState
0014db24 s __ZTI13ID3FileFormat
0014db30 s __ZTI13ID3FileStream
00149a94 s __ZTI13ID3TagParser2
00110458 s __ZTS11ID3TagState
0011809c s __ZTS13ID3FileFormat
001180ac s __ZTS13ID3FileStream
00110448 s __ZTS13ID3TagParser2
00149a80 s __ZTV11ID3TagState
0014da70 s __ZTV13ID3FileFormat
0014dac0 s __ZTV13ID3FileStream
00149a68 s __ZTV13ID3TagParser2
0011a358 s __ZZN13ID3FileStream11ParseHeaderER27AudioFileStreamContinuationE5C.241

For comparison, here is what original 10.6 has (from 10a403 DVD):

$ nm /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Server\ Install\ Disc/System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox | grep ID3
000e5614 T _ID3ParserClose
000e5654 T _ID3ParserGetProperty
000e70b8 T _ID3ParserOpen
000c25bc t __Z13IsID3TagStartPKh
000ea43c t __Z15ID3CallbackProcPvmmmPS_Pm
00044478 t __Z16ID3v1TagExistsDSP10DataSource
00045154 t __Z18MP3ID3CallbackProcPvmmmPS_Pm
0002baf8 t __Z19AIFFID3CallbackProcPvmmmPS_Pm
000e7454 t __Z31FillInfoDictionaryFromID3ParserP14CACFDictionaryP17OpaqueID3ParserID
000ea480 t __Z38AudioFormatProperty_ID3TagToDictionaryPhmPP14__CFDictionary
000e6d60 t __Z7ID3SizemPKhRi
000ff888 s __ZL16sID3FrameIDPairs
000e51ec t __ZN10ID3TagBase10GetFrameIDEPhm
000e53f8 t __ZN10ID3TagBase11HasEncodingEm
000e6974 t __ZN10ID3TagBase12GetFrameInfoEmR12ID3FrameInfo
000e951c t __ZN10ID3TagBase13CopyFrameDataEPhmmPPKv
000e52c8 t __ZN10ID3TagBase14GetV4FrameSizeEPhmRmS1_
000e521c t __ZN10ID3TagBase14IsValidFrameIDEm
000e534c t __ZN10ID3TagBase16GetFrameDataSizeEPhmPm
000e7150 t __ZN10ID3TagBase16ProvideFrameDataEPhmmPmb
000e5b88 t __ZN10ID3TagBase17GetFrameInfoForIDEmmR12ID3FrameInfo
000e6f38 t __ZN10ID3TagBase18GetNextFrameOffsetEv
000e5590 t __ZN10ID3TagBase20GetEncodingFromFrameEPhm
000e6924 t __ZN10ID3TagBase20GetFrameInfoByOffsetEmP12ID3FrameInfo
000e82c0 t __ZN10ID3TagBase21CreateTextFrameStringEPhm
000e4fac t __ZN10ID3TagBase21MultipleFramesAllowedEm
000e8c2c t __ZN10ID3TagBase25CreatePRIVFrameDictionaryEPhm
000e918c t __ZN10ID3TagBase25CreateTXXXFrameDictionaryEPhm
000e8e98 t __ZN10ID3TagBase25CreateWXXXFrameDictionaryEPhm
000e8500 t __ZN10ID3TagBase28CreateExtendedTextDictionaryEPhm
000e8898 t __ZN10ID3TagBase28CreatePictureFrameDictionaryEPhm
000e6ffc t __ZN10ID3TagBase4InitEv
000e6aac t __ZN10ID3TagBaseC1EP11V2TagHeader
000e6a44 t __ZN10ID3TagBaseC2EP11V2TagHeader
000ea114 t __ZN10ID3TagBaseD0Ev
000e9f70 t __ZN10ID3TagBaseD1Ev
00007e18 t __ZN10ID3TagBaseD2Ev
000d6cb0 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat11GetHFSCodesEPmPv
000d6c98 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat13GetExtensionsEPPK9__CFArray
000d6ca4 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat15GetFileTypeNameEPPK10__CFString
000d5cac t __ZN13ID3FileFormat20FileDataIsThisFormatEmPKv
000d6c90 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat21ExtensionIsThisFormatEPK10__CFString
000d6cc0 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat21GetAvailableFormatIDsEPmPv
000d6cd0 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat30GetAvailableStreamDescriptionsEmPmPv
000d6c88 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat3NewEv
000d6c38 t __ZN13ID3FileFormat9NewStreamEv
000d6ce0 t __ZN13ID3FileFormatD0Ev
000d6d4c t __ZN13ID3FileFormatD1Ev
000d6d28 t __ZN13ID3FileFormatD2Ev
000d5d18 t __ZN13ID3FileStream11GetPropertyEmPmPv
000d5fcc t __ZN13ID3FileStream11ParseHeaderER27AudioFileStreamContinuation
000d5cc4 t __ZN13ID3FileStream15GetPropertyInfoEmPmPh
000d5f2c t __ZN13ID3FileStreamC2Ev
000d5de8 t __ZN13ID3FileStreamD0Ev
000d5f28 t __ZN13ID3FileStreamD1Ev
000d5e8c t __ZN13ID3FileStreamD2Ev
00044688 t __ZN13MPEGAudioFile12ParseID3TagsEv
000e9fe0 t __ZN13TOpaqueObjectIP17OpaqueID3ParserIDED0Ev
000ea04c t __ZN13TOpaqueObjectIP17OpaqueID3ParserIDED1Ev
000ea028 t __ZN13TOpaqueObjectIP17OpaqueID3ParserIDED2Ev
000e9f6c t __ZN15ID3ParserHandle11PrintObjectEP7__sFILE
000e56e4 t __ZN15ID3ParserHandle12CopyV1StringEm
000e9898 t __ZN15ID3ParserHandle18ID3API_GetPropertyEmPvmPmS0_
000e7dc4 t __ZN15ID3ParserHandle25CallReadProcForMoreFramesEv
000e6bb4 t __ZN15ID3ParserHandleC2EPvPFlS0_mmmPS0_PmE
000e6ab0 t __ZN15ID3ParserHandleD0Ev
000e6bb0 t __ZN15ID3ParserHandleD1Ev
000e6b34 t __ZN15ID3ParserHandleD2Ev
000ea050 t __ZN9__gnu_cxx13new_allocatorISt10_List_nodeI12ID3FrameInfoEE8allocateEmPKv
000e9f74 t __ZNK10TOpaqueRefI15ID3ParserHandleE13FromOpaqueRefEv
000ea08c t __ZNSt4listI12ID3FrameInfoSaIS0_EE14_M_create_nodeERKS0_
000ea0e0 t __ZNSt4listI12ID3FrameInfoSaIS0_EE9_M_insertESt14_List_iteratorIS0_ERKS0_
0013bd20 s __ZTI10ID3TagBase
0013b768 s __ZTI13ID3FileFormat
0013b774 s __ZTI13ID3FileStream
0013c020 s __ZTI13TOpaqueObjectIP17OpaqueID3ParserIDE
0013bd14 s __ZTI15ID3ParserHandle
000fda74 s __ZTS10ID3TagBase
000fceb4 s __ZTS13ID3FileFormat
000fcec4 s __ZTS13ID3FileStream
000ff860 s __ZTS13TOpaqueObjectIP17OpaqueID3ParserIDE
000fda60 s __ZTS15ID3ParserHandle
0013bd00 s __ZTV10ID3TagBase
0013b6b0 s __ZTV13ID3FileFormat
0013b700 s __ZTV13ID3FileStream
0013c030 s __ZTV13TOpaqueObjectIP17OpaqueID3ParserIDE
0013bce8 s __ZTV15ID3ParserHandle
000ff808 s __ZZN13ID3FileStream11ParseHeaderER27AudioFileStreamContinuationE5C.257

We will be in trouble if frameworks refer to missing symbols. Original framework has ppc slice, so perhaps it should not have been replaced.

$ file /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Server\ Install\ Disc/System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox
/Volumes/Mac OS X Server Install Disc/System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox: Mach-O universal binary with 3 architectures
/Volumes/Mac OS X Server Install Disc/System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox (for architecture x86_64):    Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
/Volumes/Mac OS X Server Install Disc/System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox (for architecture i386):    Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386
/Volumes/Mac OS X Server Install Disc/System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox (for architecture ppc):    Mach-O dynamically linked shared library ppc

Or if it should have, then a stub is needed for missing symbols.

 

[mac57mac57]

I know that I have asked this before, but with recent changes, here we go again...

Now that I have a "cool, quiet Quad" ("short, sharp shock" , anyone? 😀), I am interested in installing SL PPC on it, to see how it will work. It has been quite a while since I last tried out SL PPC; I am hoping that some serious progress has been made since then.

WHERE can I download the latest and greatest SL PPC from?

Tromping through the various threads that relate to SL PPC, I found this:

Is that the latest version?

 

[jktwice]

I know that I have asked this before, but with recent changes, here we go again...

Now that I have a "cool, quiet Quad", I am interested in installing SL PPC on it, to see how it will work. It has been quite a while since I last tried out SL PPC; I am hoping that some serious progress has been made since then.

WHERE can I download the latest and greatest SL PPC from?

Tromping through the various threads that relate to SL PPC, I found this:

View attachment 2512956

Is that the latest version?

Yes Alpha 5 is the latest image so far.

There's also a brief explanation of some bugs that require replacing frameworks n stuff.

 

[mac57mac57]

Hmmm... OK, it would not come up. It boots, plays the opening music that accompanies the initial install screen, and then gets stuck and dies.

Are there any special install instructions that I might have missed?

I installed it by putting the A5 DMG on my desktop and then using Disk Utility to "Scan for Restore", and then "Restore" to a 500 GB HDD with the "Erase the Destination" option ticked. Is there anything else I need to do?

@jktwice, "There's also a brief explanation of some bugs that require replacing frameworks n stuff"

Where will I find that explanation? It does not appear to be a file in the DMG.

 

[jktwice]

Hmmm... OK, it would not come up. It boots, plays the opening music that accompanies the initial install screen, and then gets stuck and dies.

Are there any special install instructions that I might have missed?

I installed it by putting the A5 DMG on my desktop and then using Disk Utility to "Scan for Restore", and then "Restore" to a 500 GB HDD with the "Erase the Destination" option ticked. Is there anything else I need to do?

@jktwice, "There's also a brief explanation of some bugs that require replacing frameworks n stuff"

Where will I find that explanation? It does not appear to be a file in the DMG.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/10-6-snow-leopard-powerpc-development.2439769/ the very first post is basically a small wiki. Peruse through it for links to installers, extra downloads you might want, and various tabs including a "bugs/workarounds" tab. Hope that helps.

The DMG is an image you have to restore. Could have been corrupted when you opened it, idk. I assume you're running stock G5 so 6600 and everything. Would suggest trying to restore again with a fresh dmg from the Google Drive link.

 

[mac57mac57]

Thanks @jktwice, I will review the whole thread and try again.

 

[mac57mac57]

Hi @jktwice, still no luck. Curiously, while the opening install screen music plays, nothing EVER appears on screen.

Does SL PPC support the Nvidia Quadro FX 4500? This is the graphics card in my machine. I also have an eSATA PCIe card installed. It all works just fine under Sorbet.

This machine is anything but "stock". This is my "cool, quiet Quad", with both the CPU intake and exhaust fans replaced with uber-quiet ones, which run in isolation from the Quad's motherboard fan control headers, instead wired up through an independent variable speed fan controller. Full details of this setup are in my "Cooling a Hot Quad" thread.

I suspect that this is germaine, since what I see after the machine freezes up is that the Check stop light on the motherboard is turned on. I am guessing that the lack of "connected" fans convinces the installer that the machine will eventually overheat and so it proactively turns it off. Possible?

 

[barracuda156]

Does SL PPC support the Nvidia Quadro FX 4500?

Yes, it does.

This is the graphics card in my machine. I also have an eSATA PCIe card installed. It all works just fine under Sorbet.

This can easily be the issue, AHCI kext is broken in SL. I have written about the issue. My Sonnet PCIe card does not work, for example, and sends the Quad into KP if detected. Easier solution is to trash two AHCI kexts, they are anyway useless. (Alternative is to use OF to disable the specific PCIe interface.)

 

[barracuda156]

@educovas @ChrisCharman One more thing found accidentally, which is missing ppc slice in our image:

/usr/bin/wish: line 2: /usr/bin/../../System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.5/Resources/Wish.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish: Bad CPU type in executable

 

[SevenTheGamingKitty]

Hate to join in randomly to nitpick, but.... is the snow leopard image used for the first post... AI generated???