The MaciNTosh project does it the way it likely would have shipped, using a separate media to load VENEER and kickstart NT and then provide the HAL and required drivers (which that project does via a RAM disk available to the installer). That project uses a CD for this mostly because the initial supported machines didn't have a floppy. A period NT 4.0 install for Shiner (or any PPC Mac) would use the stock NT 4.0 PPC CD with a boot floppy and a driver floppy just like a stock x86 install would have.
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Ok, I doubled back to start testing again but using the default 4.0 cd. Then start putting all the pieces needed on a floppy trying to emulate a real setup.
@PappaDF Just to confirm, what cd version are you using? I might have picked windows NT 4.0 server when you were using workstation? But I wanted to confirm.
this is where I'm at right now with that setup.
@PappaDF Just to confirm, what cd version are you using? I might have picked windows NT 4.0 server when you were using workstation? But I wanted to confirm.
this is where I'm at right now with that setup.
Yes, I picked:
OEM 000-48303 (October 1996) Workstation release.
md5sum nt-4.0-ppc.iso
# ab37556d72818ed082c1d01c2d7f1898
see https://github.com/pappadf/powermac-nt-hal/wiki/Emulator-Media-you-must-supply
Thanks PappaDF, I'm using the same CD
We have progressed to video now. I'm now making all edits to the floppy and the CD is now default ISO.
Code:
HAL: IoReadPartitionTable: no MBR signature (00000000 00000000)
HAL: IoReadPartitionTable: 0 partitions, signature 00000000
HAL: SRBTRACE7 BULK adapter ee518de8 path 00000000 target 000000ff lun 000000ff status 0000000e
HAL: SRBTRACE7 BULK adapter ee518de8 path 00000000 target 000000ff lun 000000ff status 0000000e
HAL: IoReadPartitionTable: no MBR signature (00000000 00000000)
HAL: IoReadPartitionTable: 0 partitions, signature 00000000
HAL: IoAssignDriveLetters: boot device '\Device\CdRom0' -> E:, 0 floppy 2 disk 1 cdrom
HAL: system path in 'C:\PPC' (len 6 max 130)
HAL: system path -> 'E:\PPC'
Setup has encountered a fatal error while initializing your computer's video.
Contact your product support representative for assistance. The following
status codes will assist them in diagnosing the problem:
(0, 0xc0000034)
Setup cannot continue. Power down or reboot your computer now.
Sounds excellent! This is on real hardware, right?
I've reworked my experimental branch to use the floppy + unmodified CD approach as well (I've pushed all updates to that branch). It almost works fully in the emulator.