Subject: Re: PB 1400 port
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/03/2001 16:54:48
At 9:22 AM -0400 6/30/01, Allen Briggs wrote:
> > 1) where can I find documentation on the full boot process of this
> > computer?
>
>Inside Macintosh will have some of this information. The old IM:V
>covered the older macs--I don't know if the PB1400 and other late-model,
>pre-OFW systems follow the same method, but I expect it's not much
>different.
There was a console debugger in the old ROM's. I never saw a proper
description of what you could do with it; just that you could hit
the interrupt button to get to it. Maybe if you install MacsBug. . .
Cross my heart, strike me dead, stick a lobster on my head.
John Crichton -- Farscape, 6/15/01
h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu