Subject: Re: Headless P460
To: Johan Carlsson <johanc@fusion.kth.se>
From: The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] <davagatw@Mars.utm.edU>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/01/1997 20:08:53
On Fri, 2 May 1997, Johan Carlsson wrote:

> I just discovered, by testing on a non-videoally challenged P460, that
> it's the Booter (1.9.6) that's spoiling my fun. I get a dialog box saying:
> "NetBSD/mac68k has not yet been proven to work on your machine." The
> options are: "Boot Anyway" and "Cancel Boot", the latter being the default
> so I can't just plug in a keyboard and hit Return :-(
> 
> So my options are: click randomly hoping to hit the right button or get
> the Booter source and translate it to Pascal (I only got Think Pascal on
> the MacOS side) *or* again being salvaged by one of the Jedis on this list
> (the last option being the most attractive one ;-).

Or create a prefs file with a working computer and turn the option "Don't
bug me about untested systems" on (in boot preferences under the rightmost
menu or thereabouts).  That should work, unless something's really weird.


Hope that helps,

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