> > It should be possible to boot using even 1.3 ROMs (or 1.0 !!).
> 
> Yes, but it would be big waste of work to get it work with 1.3.
> LoadBSD reads SysBase->AttnFlags to get knowledge about the CPU.
> And OS versions < 2.0 don't recognize an 68040. So you what have
> to write a new CPU detection ... bullshit to do so.

easy enough to use -c option to loadbsd.

> And I don't think there's any 1.3 user with a configuration usable
> for NetBSD out there. 1.3 machines are A500/000s with 1MB.

I have an a2000 with 1.3 and run NetBSD.  (I boot into 2.0 first,
so my machine boots 3 times during a reboot to netbsd. fun).

> Matthias Scheler
> tron@lyssa.owl.de