Ops,

for some reason I re-received your very old post... and
think that while replying I was pondering something like
"uhm... but I am sure that I had already replied to this.."

Ciao,

A.

On Saturday, Mar 29, 2003, at 12:59 Europe/Rome, The Black Hacker wrote:

> On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 03:59 Europe/Rome, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>> That's kind of what I just said, yeah.  I didn't see the note when I 
>> skimmed the install instructions though.  So, even if I didn't have 
>> an OF password set it still would have died?
>
> Yes. I cooked 2 different machines that way. And I never used
> the OF password stuff. The good part is that Apple's repair centers
> don't understand what is going on and just replace the motherboard
> on warranty. *evilgrin*
>
> I think that is an extremely stupid thing from Apple not having a
> fail-safe boot switch or a method to reflash a corrupted firmware
> (what I did a zillion times on an AlphaPC motherboard while
> trying to hack the firmware to have it boot off an unrecognized
> scsi controller: move the switch and either slip a firmware floppy
> in or feed in the firmware through a special serial port on the
> motherboard..).
>
>> My problem is I've done enough with OF 1 machines that I *think* *I 
>> know what I'm doing.  With apologies to MW (who's done a wonderful 
>> job, really!) the install instructions are really awfully long.  I 
>> don't grok the visual hierarchy of the outline and I find myself 
>> skipping over whole sections that I want to see.
>
> I think that a "DON'T DO THIS ON AN OF3 MACHINE" note everywhere
> the word "load-base" or "real-base" appears in the document would
> help a lot...
>
>> Gee, can I run the MAKEDEV script under OSX?  If so that would 
>> eliminate the need to run even the INSTALL kernel to install NetBSD 
>> on an OSX machine.  Just tried it and no, not even close.  Guess that 
>> was too much to hope for.
>
> No, it doesn't work, or at least I never succeeded to.
>
> Ciao,
>
> A.
>