On Sep 27,  9:48pm, Ethan Gold wrote:
>Has anybody managed to boot from System8? The boot dump from my last
>message was generated from under System 7.1.

Yes, My C610 runs System 8.  I can boot with extensions on (three rows'
worth, except with VM off) and with extensions off.

>under System8 the boot sequence freezes right after reporting:
>
>scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets

That seems to be where it starts probing for disks:
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <SGI, SEAGATE ST51080N, 0950> SCSI2 0/direct fixed

Why it should work when booting from Sys7 and not Sys8 is beyond me.  I've
heard that Sys8 needs the disk drivers to be updated, but I don't know if
that's true, or even pertinent...

~Steve

-- 
Steven R. Allen - wormey@eskimo.com      http://www.eskimo.com/~wormey/

Faith is the quality that enables you to eat blackberry jam on a picnic
without looking to see whether the seeds move.

Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly.  
It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.
	-Kyle Hearn  <kyle@intex.net>

Line Printer paper is strongest at the perforations.