BootX 1.2.3 (and G3 upgrade)

Daniel Gimpelevich yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri May 14 14:36:01 2004


That's odd. I could have sworn I pulled the custom 1.2.3 off the 2.3 CD. Are
you sure you checked there? AFAIK, you can still download that version.
-- 
"No gnu's is good gnu's."   --Gary Gnu, "The Great Space Coaster"


> From: Richard.Gill@math.uu.nl
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 21:14:36 +0200 (CEST)
> Subject: BootX 1.2.3 (and G3 upgrade)
> 
> Does anyone have a copy of BootX 1.2.3?
> 
> The last official version is 1.2.2.
> However it seems that YDL 2 shipped with a
> custom BootX called 1.2.3. It was later
> down-graded to the standard 1.2.2, which you
> can find for instance in YDL 2.3. However
> I read that someone had success with Sonnet L2/G3
> using that version of BootX and no other...!
> 
> [still trying to get my 500 MHz G3 upgrade of a
> 6500/275 to work under linux - the problem seems
> almost certainly to be BootX. BootX is a software
> hack - soft booting linux from OS 9 - and the L2/G3
> is a hardware hack, since after the upgrade one has
> TWO cpu's, both in working order, and one of them
> is not in the usual place...  So probably this is a
> lost cause. But I rather like lost causes... ]
> 
> Richard Gill
> 
> http://www.math.uu.nl/people/gill
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