Adam Lang (thalen@cs.pdx.edu)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:30:14 -0800
>I'll tell you this: I've SEEN screenshots of Rhapsody pre-DR1 (it was in
>fact the first screen shots I'd ever seen) booting off of a Shiner box. It
>even said so in the bootup script.
You're kidding. Really? Oh, God, you would not BELIEVE how long I
spent trying to get DR1 and DR2 runing on this @%#$% thing. In fact,
I might even be willing to believe that my screwing with it and the
9500 ROM and my anguished screams when neither one worked were what
stopped LinuxPPC's erstwhile-successful installs, and left me up a
creek without a plantaginet. Or whatever.
Rhapsody DR1 would boot off of a 9500 without an NVRAMRC, even.
By the way, in case anyone is curious, the ANS 500 with a 9500 ROM DOES
make it into OF, if you do it via the serial port. Of course, it is
serial port 2 that is the one that... *grumblegrumble* Anyway, it will
also start to boot into MacOS, but freezes at the grey screen (this is
with a third-party video card.) I speculate that it might actually
boot into MacOS if it had a third-party SCSI card in it, too. Then
again, maybe not. I might try, sometime when I'm really, REALLLY
ultra super bored. If my company doesn't reposess the 9500 ROM before
the next time I'm that bored.
Pleeeeease. If anyone at Apple is listening... I want to run
MacOS X Server on this thing.
--Adam Lang
Adam Lang, LAP Technologies, 786 Sharmon Palms Ln. Suite D, Campbell, CA 95008
(408) 374-5636 thalen@cs.pdx.edu
"There is no reason for an individual to have a computer in their home."
-- 1977, Ken Olsen, President of DEC Inc.
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