Re: Booting a 660AV?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>>> A Mac DA-15 to VGA adapter is entirely passive?  [...]
>>> This might help [...bigmessowires.com...]
>> Oof!  There is clearly a lot more going on here than I'd realized.
> If you figure out that the machine boots, or at least tries to, you
> can bend a piece of paper clip to make the Mac think it has a
> monitor.

I recall that...fuzzily.  Grounding one of the monitor sense lines,
isn't it?

> Are you getting a chime when you power it on?

No.  I'm not certain I'm even actually powering it on.  The power
supply fan spins, but only as long as I hold the power button in; I
tried holding it for some seconds and the machine made no noise and
didn't drive anything the monitor (a flatscreen, bleh) recognized as a
video signal, not even one it wouldn't sync to.

> Did you mention BlueSCSI?

I did not.  I don't have a BlueSCSI; as long as the firmware is GPLv3 I
won't, because that license is too complex to be appropriate for any
purpose of mine regardless of what it actually ends up permitting.

The machine has - well, had; I have it out on the desk at the moment -
a spinning-rust SCSI disk, an Apple-branded "Quantum ProDrive LT"
claiming to be 350MB.  I want to hook it up to another machine and see
what's on it, but I haven't yet.

> I might be able to make a disk image of a bootable Mac HFS partition
> along with Booter that launches automatically and boots a NetBSD
> kernel in to a clean NetBSD installation.  Let me know if that'd
> help.

Well, disk images are disk images; a BlueSCSI is not needed to do
useful things with a disk image, assuming of course it fits on the
available drive, right?  (Also, depending on the Booter<->kernel
interface, a modern Booter may not even work for me, since I won't be
booting modern kernels.)

I may have to take you up on that, but I'd rather do it with what I've
got if I can.  I'll keep that offer in my back pocket; if I can't get
it to power up properly all the disk images in the world won't help.

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