At 1:05 PM +0100 3/29/03, The Black Hacker wrote:
>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.

'sarright!

>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.

I did check that and the script mostly "works" but it puts different 
information in the nodes under OSX than under NetBSD.  In other words 
it doesn't work at all.

>>Ciao,
>>
>>A.


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