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pendingmac

macrumors newbie
Original poster
May 24, 2020
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Whenever I reach the volume selection screen it tells me "you cannot install Mac OS X on this volume, your computer cannot boot from this volume" (paraphrased), tried everything in disk utility and used different virtual disks and still face the same issue.
 

ifrit05

macrumors 6502a
Dec 23, 2013
548
385
Near Detroit, MI. USA
QEMU wiki states the install command-line parameters should be:
./qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99 -m 512 -hda <hd image file> -cdrom <iso file of installation media>

Make sure that's how you're launching it.
 

pendingmac

macrumors newbie
Original poster
May 24, 2020
6
0
QEMU wiki states the install command-line parameters should be:
./qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99 -m 512 -hda <hd image file> -cdrom <iso file of installation media>

Make sure that's how you're launching it.
This is how I'm launching it (except I use 1024 MB)
 
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