On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, chris wrote:

> >I am playing around a bit with Basilisk][ hoping I can leverage brute force
> >emulation on a big intel box to speed up builds of netbsd for my LC575.  I
> >see some e-mails from back in the past where people reported booter trying
> >to fire up a kernel, but my recent attempts don't even get me that far.
> >Firing up booter gives me 'BSD/Mac68k requires a 68020 with 68851 PMMU or a
> >68030 or later, to run.'  Could someone crank out a build of booter that
> >does not make that test in the begining or is there a tweak to Basilisk
> >that will help?
>
> I'm wondering if this is a ROM image issue. IIRC, Basilisk needs you to
> make a ROM image from a working Mac. I think they recommend a Mac Plus
> (and maybe even have some "links" to places you can get such a pre made
> rom image). Maybe the older ROM image causes Basilisk to believe and
> report itself as a non compatible machine to the booter.
>
> Just a guess as I haven't tried it myself.

If that's the case, there is a tweak. There's an item in the Booter to
set the "Machine ID" to an arbitrary value. You can get the numbers to
try in that box from ".../sys/arch/mac68k/include/cpu.h"

Frederick