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Re: [slightly OT] Boot problems with OS 9.0.4

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, strobe anarkhos wrote:

> >
> > > Whatever you do don't tell us which mac you're using.
> >
> >Took me a minute to realize you were kidding. Sorry, it's a firewire G3
> >PowerBook. :-) Jeez, as long as I've been doing MkLinux support, and I
> >forget the most obvious piece of information....
>
> Yea...what happened to that MkLinux development |-)

Too busy getting my Master's degree. I haven't had time to do anything
other than CD building recently. My last big hack was the 52/53/62/6300
support back last July or so.

BTW, I've been thinking about hacking the Darwin kernel to support older
machines, and I'm running into a small issue because Apple took the memory
size argument out of the kernel args list. Does anybody know a good way
to probe the memory size on pre-PCI macs other than A. asking the MacOS
nanokernel (which would require adding that argument back), B. trying to
figure out the memory controllers on every single model, or C. writing a
bit pattern at a certain page at a particular address, then accessing
progressively higher addresses until it appears again, and taking the
difference, calling it bank 1's size, then repeating? :-)


> If you are using Apple's OS X boot volume selector that ought to bless
> the folder. You can try the OF boot volume selector, but be warned you
> have to be PATIENT since it's very slow on the Pismo for some reason (I
> wish I knew). It will look like it's taking forever to find it.

The OF boot volume selector, if you mean the option key, is what's getting
confused. as for the boot volume selector in OS X, the classic control
panel works, but doesn't change the outcome. The control panel applet
that's part of OS X's control panel system unexpectedly quits as soon as
you try to run it. Strangest thing, and undoubtedly related, since it
never did that before....


> You can boot of a MacOS 9 CD and run the System Disk app.

Yeah. Tried that. Oddly enough, I actually have to select the Mac OS 9
CD in the OF boot chooser or else that won't boot either. Just holding
down the c key causes the machine to start booting from the CD, but then
hang at the little happy mac just like the hard drive boot.


> I have other suggestions but they get a tad involved.

Fire away. :-)


David

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