Wednesday, November 19, 2014

I deplore my Chromeadore 64

As expected, Chrome 39 dawned and ended 32-bit support on OS X. While it still supports 64-bit on 10.6, expect Snow Leopard support to end entirely as just a matter of time. Blink-cum-Chromium still works on 32 bit systems, because Windows still has a 32-bit Chrome, but I can't imagine Google will keep it around much longer either.

Some of you have inquired about why there is no TenFourFox 31.2.1, and the reason is the issue it fixed (incomplete pave-over installation) doesn't apply to us. I'm waiting for build tags to land and then we'll pull and build 31.3 for the weekend. I've gotten most of the new assembler for IonMonkey PPC completed, and once I get 36 aurora to work, then I will turn my attention to the macroassembler.

Finally, from the world of the Web, a primer on booting Leopard from a USB stick. This probably works for Tiger too. Note the interesting limitation he discovered that 10.7+'s Disk Utility cannot create Apple Partition Maps anymore, meaning they can no longer create bootable volumes for Power Macs. Keep your Snow Leopard Intel Macs humming. :( Seems to work on Mavericks and (reported) Yosemite, so maybe it's just Lion?

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6 comments:

  1. UnknownArtistNovember 19, 2014 at 9:43 AM

    Not sure about Lion, but I was able to put Apple Partition Map and Tiger Install DVD to my USB stick using Disk Utility on Yosemite last week.

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    1. ClassicHasClassNovember 19, 2014 at 10:16 AM

      Well, how about that. I checked it on Mavericks and the option is there too. So I don't know what to say there.

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    2. AnonymousNovember 20, 2014 at 6:38 PM

      Oh lol, can you attach a screenshot? I tried to create the Leopard USB stick on Yosemite's Disk Utility and it doesn't have the options to create Apple Partition Map in my case. I only found them when I ran the Disk Utility of a Snow Leopard Virtual Machine... I was able to create also with Panther's Disk Utility and Leopard's Disk Utility as well, so I assumed the options were removed from Lion onwards.

      Best regards!

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  2. kpNovember 20, 2014 at 1:54 AM

    I tried to use the most current TFF (31.2.0) with my G5 DP 1.8 running Tiger 10.4. No luck. Says I cannot run on this configuration etc. Tiger is on an internal drive and is kept for legacy client work and some old I apps I use from time to time. I run Leopard 10.5.8 for most of my day to day work and it resides on another internal drive. Can you guide me how to use TFF on Tiger? Or is the checking on starting TFF detecting a problem with the Tiger OS? Any help you can provide is much appreciated!

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    1. ClassicHasClassNovember 20, 2014 at 9:17 AM

      TenFourFox works fine on a G5 with 10.4; that's the system I use. Please open a trouble ticket on Tenderapp and we'll see if we can figure out what's gone wrong.

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    2. kpNovember 21, 2014 at 2:23 AM

      Thank you for your prompt reply. I will follow your suggestion and open a trouble ticket - hopefully it will be a simple fix!

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