ClaudioM

So, I decided to play around with Mini vMac and A/UX, but I couldn't get the ISO to be detected upon boot from the disk image. Decided to go with Basilisk II, and I've gotten this far for now. Everything I've seen online says it won't run on Basilisk II, but is this as far as they get? If not, then I'd say it's some progress. ​

I assume I need to create the partitions for A/UX to work on the "Mac II" disk image.

Mar 16 at 5:37pmWeb
Show threadKnut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸Mar 16
@claudiom How did you do that? A/UX requires a clean rom and an FPU.
Show threadClaudioMMar 16

@praetor I grabbed some ROMs and configured Basilisk II with a "68020 w/ FPU"

See the pic...

Show threadKnut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸Mar 16
@claudiom That's probably why you've gotten so far. Patched rom, and I didn't know Basillisk had an FPU now.
Show threadClaudioMMar 16

@praetor OK, so the stopper now is that I can't modify the contents of a disk image using Apple HDSC Setup or Drive Setup, and there's no way that I know of to modify the disk image and create partitions inside of it.

Unless..... Gparted? ​

Show threadKnut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸Mar 16
@claudiom that's bizzare. Basillisk has a tried and true SCSI emulation stack, so not sure why the image would be read-only. 777 the image and see what that does.
Show threadClaudioMMar 16
@praetor Well, I don't think it's a permissions thing more so as it's a thing that neither of those drive setup tools can detect. It's in a subdirectory in my home directory, so the permissions shouldn't be an issue as I'm the owner.
Show threadKnut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸Mar 16
@claudiom yeah. IDK. I use qemu for that sort of stuff. Unless it's detecting a disparity between how big the disk is being detected and how much data is actually on it. Kinda like how qcow will say a disk is 10G, but on the filesystem it's not that big. So maybe try dd'ing a raw disk image from /dev/zero and try?
Show threadClaudioMMar 16
@praetor Yeah, QEMU would have to be the final route for this, but I'm just tinkering around until I can get time to work on the actual Quadra 650 at home with A/UX. That will have to be repartitioned as covered here: https://aux-penelope.com/aux_3.0.htm
Show threadKnut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸Mar 16
@claudiom if you can get it to work, that's a huge feather in your cap. Everyone will want to lay you. A/UX is known for being very persnickative. Even more so that OSX. So good luck!
Show threadClaudioMMar 16
@praetor Thanks! I re-read your last toot and it could be the disk image size that's the problem. I may just create a new one at 2 GB or so, see what happens there, and keep you posted. ​
Show threadKnut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸Mar 16
@claudiom yeah. actually create a raw disk image with zeros written on it, so there is actual data it can detect.
Show threadKnut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸Mar 16
@claudiom oh also mind the blocksize. It may be like SunOS that needs a certain blocksize configuration.
Show threadxmanmonkMar 16
@claudiom I've always had good luck with Badilidk II.
Show threadxmanmonkMar 16
@claudiom basilisk. Damn fat fingers.
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Mar 16

@claudiom Basilisk II isn't capable of running A/UX, because A/UX requires an MMU (memory management unit) and B2 doesn't emulate that - it's the same reason you can't run Linux or NetBSD on B2.

Yes, you can run the “A/UX Startup" application from Mac OS, but you won’t ever be able to boot A/UX itself, even if you create all the partitions and copy the files over by hand.

There are two options for running A/UX under emulation:

1. QEMU (recommended)
setup guide for Mac hosts: https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/m68k-qemu-on-osx#running_qemu-system-m68k_with_a_ux_3x_guests_in_macos
setup guide for Win hosts: https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/m68k-qemu-on-windows#running_qemu-system-m68k_with_a_ux_3x_guests_in_windows

2. Shoebill (less recommended as it bypasses the Mac OS launcher and boots A/UX directly)
https://github.com/pruten/shoebill

Running qemu-system-m68k in macOS [E-Maculation wiki]

Show threadClaudioMMar 17

@smallsco Thanks for responding. Yeah, I was bored and wanted to see how far I could go.  Shoebill I've known about for a while now, but back then I couldn't get it to run right, more than likely my fault. It's not in the OpenBSD binary ports, so I'll have to try that in Linux. QEMU is also an option, but I'd rather Shoebill.

Nevertheless, I'm taking the Quadra 650 to work tomorrow to install it all there since, according to A/UX Penelope, the install takes quite a while.

Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Mar 17

@claudiom From my experience putting A/UX on my IIfx, the install itself doesn't take too long, it's everything else you need to do afterwards: the configuration, getting a local copy of jagubox set up, running updates..

There's a repo here with a script (systemupdate.sh) that will run the recommended updates for you once you've got a local mirror of jagubox: https://github.com/smallsco/Apple_AUX_3.1.1_Setup/blob/fix_typos/SystemUpdater/systemupdate.sh

(make sure you use the `fix_typos` branch from my fork - the original hasn't merged my changes yet and it will breaks due to some typos)

Apple_AUX_3.1.1_Setup/SystemUpdater/systemupdate.sh at fix_typos · smallsco/Apple_AUX_3.1.1_Setup

Notes on installing on a Quadra 610 with ZuluSCSI and shell scripts to update your fresh install of Apple A/UX 3.1.1 with components from jagubox and nleymann.de. - smallsco/Apple_AUX_3.1.1_Setup

GitHub
Show threadClaudioMMar 17
@smallsco You are a godsend! Thanks!