Subject: Re: IIci Booter problem
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Edward Seth Miller <esmiller@engin.umich.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/07/1997 18:28:03
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Colin Wood wrote:
> Edward Seth Miller wrote:
>
> [description of trouble booting from MacOS deleted...]
>
> > > Hmmmm...how did you ungzip the kernel? If you did it on the Mac side,
> > > the kernel may have become corrupted (I think that the enhanced Stuffit
> > > Expander does a cr->lf translation). Other than that, have you looked at
> > > the faq and tried the list of things to try when your mac doesn't boot?
> > > BTW, the FAQ is available at:
> > >
> > > http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/macbsd-docs/faq/
> > > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/faq.html (or any of its mirror
> > > sites throughout the world)
> > >
> > Thank you greatly. That was the problem, alright. I remember how I got
> > past it last time: I made my Linux-using friend un-tgz it for me. Okay,
> > now I know it works... I just have to get everything set up correctly...
> > At any rate, that'll teach me to trust Stuffit Expander...
>
> I believe that if you use MacGzip and Suntar, there are options to not
> translate the file. Then you could do it yourself.
>
Actually, I found that there is an option in Stuffit Expander to do the
same; it just hadn't occurred to me. Not that this implies that Stuffit
should be trusted.
-Seth Miller