PowerMac 5400/120 reports OpenFirmware version 2.0 installed.

On 6/2/2000 at 10:32 AM, mw34@cornell.edu (Michael Wolfson) wrote:
> At 8:46 AM -0500 6/2/00, you wrote:
> 
> :Installing to 5400/120 I have to use BootVars 1.3 as Apple's System
> :Disk )reports that my machine isn't capable of running OS X and so
> :refuses to )do anything.  I believe I was running System Disk 1.2.1
> 
> They're up to 2.3.1
><ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/macosxserver/utilities/SystemDisk2.3.1.smi.bin>
> and it's much improved.

Sorry about that.  I was at home when I wrote that.  I am using System
Disk 2.3.1.  It's the one that complains about the my machine not being
capable of running MacOS X.

> Are you sure your machine is 1.0.5, I thought it would be 2.something?
> In any case, the patches are contained in the resource fork of the
> SystemDisk application.  Trust me SystemDisk contains a *lot* of
> patches.

Are these the ones found in the 'OFpt' resource?
Yep, there are a number of them, I'm just not certain which one to run
(if any).

  128  PowerSurge
  129  PowerExpress
  130  Gossamer
  131  PowerMac G3
  132  Wallstreet
  133  Mainstreet
  134  Hooper
  135  Kanga

According to the model support page at:

  http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html

my 5400/120 is an Alchemy motherboard.


Ben
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