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Re: MkLinux Control Panel Compatability with Sonnet Crescendo C61-G3-1M-266 card

On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 06:58 AM, Louis A. Reed wrote:

> as I am still using the 601 processor, but would like to be able to boot
> into Linux using the MkLinux Control Panel after the G3 card is running
> (i.
> e. after the Sonnet extension has already loaded, if a workaround can be
> figured out to get the MkLinux Control Panel to load after loading the
> Sonnet extension.
>
> I know that David Gatwood mentioned when he was starting to work at
> Apple
> that one of the projects that he would be trying to work on involved
> this,
> and I wonder if any progress had been made along these lines. I had not
> seen anything on the list regarding this matter in a while, but it is
> possible that I missed it.

Haven't had time to breathe since then, since I'm working extra days to
make up for a vacation. :-)


> Any info concerning the use of the
> MkLinux bootloader in conjuction with the Sonnet Crescendo G3 Card
> would be
> greatly appreciated.

See what happens with that monolithic kernel and BootX with the
Crescendo card. I was able to at least get into the MkLinux kernel with
the crescendo active, but I think it crashed either in video
initialization or possibly even earlier while setting up BATs. Not sure.


David

References: 
 >MkLinux Control Panel Compatability with Sonnet Crescendo C61-G3-1M-266 card (From: "Louis A. Reed" <email@hidden>)



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