You would think that something as old as Mac OS 9.2.2 would be a lost cause for seeing above the 128GB barrier, but this was not the case, and the fix was amazingly simple. If only there were a modern web browser for it… sigh. Mac OS 9.2.2: Mac OS 9.2.2 is an amazingly productive environment and feels crisp and responsive on my Cube. Lets look at each one of the OS I equipped on my Cube. Therein lies the challenge – how can a Cube OS be equipped such that it CAN see all of this extra space? The answers vary by OS and by your pocketbook. That left something less than 192 GB of available disk space that none of the OS on the Cube could “see”. Respecting the “all boot partitions below 128GB” rule, I partitioned the first 128 GB into three boot partitions of 14GB, 24GB and 24GB (for Mac OS 9.2.2, Mac OS X 10.4.11 and Mac OS X 10.5.8 respectively), plus one 68GB data partition. In my case, with a roomy 320GB hard drive freshly installed into my Cube, I chose to install all of Mac OS 9.2.2, Mac OS X 10.4.11 and Mac OS X 10.5.8.
The quick answer is that the 128GB barrier is a firmware limitation, and so as long as the operating systems you wish to boot reside completely below the 128GB line, you can boot them successfully. Cubes are frequently seen on eBay with 160GB hard drives, and I recently saw one with a 750GB hard drive! Given the 128 GB hard drive limitation, what is going on here? Since then however, the machine has become a cult favourite and is often heavily upgraded. Consistent with these sizes, the machine’s ROM generously supported booting from up to 128GB of disk – plenty for the time. When the G4 Cube was introduced in 2000, Apple released it with either a 20GB or a 30 GB hard drive.
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