Subject: 1.2 Beta basically works on IIsi, w/multi-user startup quirk
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From: The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/19/1996 17:11:31
1.2 Beta Kernel on IIsi:

Test Results...

Kernel boots fine in single user, never tried direct multi-user boot, but
big deal....  Boot from Single user into multi-user gave:

clearing /tmp
Illegal instruction - core dumped

Also, the first command I entered got a sigill.  I don't remember what it
was, but it worked fine after that.  I only tested a few instructions,
though.

To sum up: it works.  It was a little quirkly at first for me, but it
works.

Editor's note: my system is the proverbial system from h***.  With it's
SCSI box ethernet that returns nothing and the old kernels all choked on,
and its lack of an FPU, and its lack of a network connection with all the
nice network unreachable messages, and the fact that all my binaries
are still 1.1_ALPHA... it is advisable to take the errors with a grain of
salt unless they appear on other ppl's systems.  On the other hand, it
also means that the kernel will work with binaries that are _way_ out of
sync, a very good sign.  Finally, it means I have yet to test, or even
download, for that matter, the 1.2_BETA binaries.  Are there any
_significant_ differences?

Later,

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