Re: PowerMac snapshot woes

[Dan Jacobowitz <drow%mindcryme.com@localhost>]

Floppy boot we have still had no luck with, as far as I know.  If you want,
I can sort through my sources and try to find the latest version of my
hacked-through ofwboot which allows floppy booting, but I more or less
abandoned it out of frustration at various interrupt-related bugs I simply
could not track down.

Dan

who really wants a mesh driver because he can't scrap his internal drive
right now

or - is the mesh the internal or external SCSI controller on the 7300's?  I
know one of them is a 53c94; if that's the external, I finally acquired the
hardware to try booting!

thoughtful...

>Will they work on a G3? I ask as I thought it has a mesh SCSI interface.
>
>If they do (and thus it makes no sense to make SCSI partitions), is it
>possible to make a boot floppy, with just the kernel and enough stuff to
>make the OFW actually boot it, then have the kernel boot off of the
>ethernet interface?
>
>Is the G3's ether supported? :-)
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill