Subject: Re: booter freezes on SE/30
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Nigel Pearson <nigel@ind.tansu.com.au>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/07/2002 12:32:41
> (Way back when, I never quite
> saw the entirety of that message. Who is the source of that, btw?).
One of the very early hackers.
> Point is, this is NOT a "Mac OS freeze", it's a "kernel not
> executing after having been loaded". This'd scream "ELF kernel
> without a Booter that speaks it"
Not really. An ELF kernel will just make the Booter say
"this doesn't appear to be a valid kernel" or whatever the
message actually reads.
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