System 7 on a Thinkpad chromebook?

[Winters]

So I have a Thinkpad x131e that I have been fiddling with lately, trying different linux distros and hiaku os, but am curious if there is a way to boot directly into System 7? I know that I could run basiliskii but am wondering if theres a way to do it without another os running in the background? I have been doing some googling and it seems that either this hasnt been done or possibly cant be done, but I wanted to check in with you all on your thoughts. Thanks in advance and if I find anything else Ill come back to report

 

[MacKilRoy]

So I have a Thinkpad x131e that I have been fiddling with lately, trying different linux distros and hiaku os, but am curious if there is a way to boot directly into System 7? I know that I could run basiliskii but am wondering if theres a way to do it without another os running in the background? I have been doing some googling and it seems that either this hasnt been done or possibly cant be done, but I wanted to check in with you all on your thoughts. Thanks in advance and if I find anything else Ill come back to report

Your thinkpad uses an Intel processor architecture. Macintosh computers made today run custom Apple-only processors that are not compatible with Intel.

Between 2006 and 2021, Apple made Macintosh computers with Intel processors, which ran Mac OS X operating system. Some machines and some OS X versions allowed a windows operating system to be installed alongside the Mac to be dual booted.

Prior to shifting to Intel processors, Apple used PowerPC processors, which were not Intel-compatible. Starting in 1994 and ending in 2006. The very early PowerPC models ran System 7.1 briefly, and System 7.5 was released in fall of 1994.

Prior to that, under system 7.0, Apple Macintosh computers ran on Motorola 68000, 68020, 68030, and 68040 processors. These were also not Intel compatible.

Your Basilisk program is an emulator. It emulates a processor and Mac model compatible with the Mac system software and boots that in a virtual machine.

It is impossible to boot the Mac OS and system 7 on your thinkpad.

 

[joshc]

Apple had a build of System 7 working on x86 hardware in the early 90s but the project was abandoned.

The only way to run it on your Thinkpad is via emulation, using either Mini Vmac, Basilisk II or Qemu.

 

[cheesestraws]

For a little while I had a thinkpad running a minimalist OS that booted straight into Basilisk II. It was a fun project but didn't really ... achieve much, unfortunately. It improved a bit when I used a rather less minimalist OS and used MacX to run X11 programs on the host, but at that point all I was doing was using X applications through a dodgy X server, which wasn't really a usability win over using a more modern X server.

It's a fun project if you want to see if you can, or if you really want a really fast but rather weird 68k mac for some reason, but for most uses it's not a particularly good decision.

 

[Winters]

I really appreciate all the feed back! @cheesestraws thats a good idea, i may end up doing something like that. Do you have any documentation you could point to? If not im sure i can wrangle up some info and try running a minimal install of something and boot directly into basilisk.