Subject: Re: 8600/200 won't boot. revised
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Michael Wolfson <mw@costello.cnf.cornell.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/12/2001 21:17:50
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 11:22 PM -0800 12/11/01, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> >So, can anyone on the list say with any confidence that setting the
> >load-base to 600000 is *necessary* to boot?  It's not necessarily
> >detrimental in all my tests, but it's definitely not required.  Granted, I
> >have no idea what OF 2.x systems do, but the default load-base on OF 1.0.5
> >and 3 have no problems with any of our boot methods.
>
> I *think* I tried using 500000 to boot the floppy image on a OF 2 mac (PDQ).

Would you mind trying a few boot methods on your OF 2 machine?  I just
want some additional confidence that 'set-default load-base' is the
command we want to be suggesting to users.

Thanks,
  -- MW