Comments on: Almost transplanted NeXTSTEP https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/09/20/almost-transplanted-nextstep/ Fun with Virtualization Tue, 18 Oct 2016 01:47:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/09/20/almost-transplanted-nextstep/comment-page-1/#comment-173811 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 01:47:21 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6425#comment-173811 In reply to daemon32.

It could be a hint, that is for sure! I never thought my old p4 ‘white box’ was such a special thing as it installed NS without any issues, but obviously it was.

]]> By: daemon32 https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/09/20/almost-transplanted-nextstep/comment-page-1/#comment-173799 Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:13:35 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6425#comment-173799 This reminds me of the strange behavior exhibited by modern versions of qemu. I installed NeXTSTEP 3.3 on qemu 2.7.0 and the same ‘interrupt timeout’ errors. In that case, it was that edge triggered interrupts weren’t being handled properly. It was fixed by applying the first half of this patch: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/208252/

Maybe whatever Intel did in this i8xx chipset interrupt controller wasn’t standard?

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/09/20/almost-transplanted-nextstep/comment-page-1/#comment-172388 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:09:56 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6425#comment-172388 In reply to Florian Voigt.

I’m just not sure if it doesn’t like my ide controllers or my disk…

]]> By: Florian Voigt https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/09/20/almost-transplanted-nextstep/comment-page-1/#comment-172383 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:03:31 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6425#comment-172383 I do things like this with VirtualBox, raw disk access works pretty well. I’m pretty sure I installed NeXTSTEP once like this – although I didn’t use a “real” disk, I installed it on a CF-Card that I accessed via raw disk access.

Cheers,

-F

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/09/20/almost-transplanted-nextstep/comment-page-1/#comment-172372 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:22:15 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6425#comment-172372 In reply to A. Kohl.

I should add, it’s basically the install process I’ve been using for years as I wrote down here, on bsdnexus.com, before I started my blog.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/09/20/almost-transplanted-nextstep/comment-page-1/#comment-172371 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:16:29 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6425#comment-172371 In reply to A. Kohl.

I thought it was more so to load the ‘beta’ drivers, the Dual channel Intel PII chipset or something like that one.. . I’ve used it on a P4 board in the past, although obviously not a 40GB disk jumpered to support only ‘8GB’ .. I may have to see how tricky it is to try other drivers.

]]> By: A. Kohl https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/09/20/almost-transplanted-nextstep/comment-page-1/#comment-172367 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:36:39 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6425#comment-172367 In reply to neozeed.

(E)IDE drivers from Nextstep don’t like everything that’s younger than Pentium II.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/09/20/almost-transplanted-nextstep/comment-page-1/#comment-172364 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:08:54 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6425#comment-172364 In reply to A. Kohl.

There is, I haven’t tried it with later versions. The P4 I was transplanting this to doesn’t have a SCSI controller, and I don’t have any SCSI disks..

]]> By: A. Kohl https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/09/20/almost-transplanted-nextstep/comment-page-1/#comment-172362 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:34:56 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6425#comment-172362 Is thero no SCSI emulation available in qemu for PC platforms?

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