Subject: Re: Fwd: booting netbsd on LCIII
To: Nigel Pearson <nigel@ind.tansu.com.au>
From: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/21/2004 10:05:53
Hi,

Yep, faulty memory.  Thanks!

cheers

bruce


On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:12:05PM +1000, Nigel Pearson wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2004, at 12:03 AM, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> >The NetBSD boot process does not require a FPU.  OTOH, the OpenBSD
> >will not let you run their boot program without a FPU.
> 
> 	As far as I know, the OpenBSD port uses the same Booter as us.
> It does not check for a FPU, only for the MMU.
> 
> 
> 	Note that there is a newer Booter (2.0.1a6) here:
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/pear_computers/Booter2.0.1a6.sea
> for those who have time & motivation to test. Biggest change
> is that it now correctly warns about stripped kernel files or
> TARed a.out kernel files, and allows booting from TARed ELF
> kernel files.
> 
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