Subject: Re: Das Boot...What happened?
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Kevin Ogden <kev@zebradale.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/23/1998 11:39:26
At 10:22 PM 1/22/98 -0800, Colin Wood wrote:
>nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Before I upgraded to 1.3 I used the Das Boot booter extension, what ever
>> > happened to this? I went to check out the Das Boot webpage and it won't
>> > talk to that server...I tried 3 days ago also.
>>
>> I will check at home to see if I have the sources.
>>
>>
>> Can anyone remind me what the 1.3 kernels _need_ from Booter 1.11 ?
>> As best I can remember, they just output a warning message if the BOOTERVER
>> variable doesn't match.
>
>I think that's it. I seem to remember Scott saying that anything from
>1.9.5 forward is ok with current kernels, and that was shortly before the
>1.3 freeze, I think (of course, I could be misremembering).
>
You need a booter newer than 1.9.5...I believe newer kernels require 1.11.
I tried booting with 1.10 and it wouldn't boot correctly.
It said something along the lines of:
You are using booter version 1.8
You will need booter 1.11 to fully support this kernel.
(that was booting with 1.10 also)
later,
Kevin