Subject: Re: source for booter?
To: xiamin <Ingerrn@cris.com>
From: Nigel Pearson <nigel@ind.tansu.com.au>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/09/1997 23:32:38
> 
> i remember some discussion of making the source for either the booter or
> the installer sometime ago...so my question is, is the source for the
> booter availible?

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/utils/src/Booter_1.9.5_src.sea.hqx


> i would like to add in some code to check if i am in b&w
> before i boot, ive tried to boot with thousands of colors on far too many
> times now

	Booter 1.9.5 has a helpful little button under the "Booting ..."
menu item (in the Options menu) for doing just what you want. Click the
"Boot in B/W" box, and save your options and preferences. Every time you
boot NetBSD from now on, the Booter program will switch to B&W before
executing the kernel. When you go back to MacOs, the colour depth will be
whatever it was before you loaded the Booter program.


	Coming soon* will be a similar series of boxes for selecting the
monitor resolution when loading the kernel, for those of us with multi-
sync monitors. After that will, hopefully, be a fix for the PRAM problem
(the one which forces you to zap the PRAM after fiddling with the MacOs
 AppleTalk/Network settings, so that the kernel doesn't hang).


* As soon as I get the Booter to Link properly under Symantec Think C v7.

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