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Re: What Macs are supported



Hi,

>Ok. I have checked. I remembered it incorrectly. He has a 68040 CPU
>and a MMU, but no FPU.

A 040 has a built in FPU. That should work. A LC040 has no builtin FPU, and 
some of the LC040 are broken and can't trap on FPU instructions.

>We have tried booting the rescue disk made from the image in the
>directory hamm/hamm/disks-m68k/1998-03-10/mac.
>
>I boots up, but hangs after a while in the boot-up sequence. Last line
>says 'Starting kswapd'.

Does it detect a SCSI bus and disks? Does it load and uncompress the ramdisk
properly? What Mac model exactly are you trying to boot on? 

Perhaps it would be easiest to save a log output of the booter, and send it
to me (no need to spam the list with that). Check the Machine Specs and
Boot_Info options in the settings. Also include the 'Hardware->Show Machine 
Profile' output. 

>We haven't bothered to download the base*.tgz and other files to the
>local hard disk yet as the instruction says:
>- copy the resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin floppy images to a directory on the
>  Mac HD (HFS).
>
>- copy base2_0.tgz to the Mac HD (no clue if there's a Mac tool to 'cat' the
>  1.4 MB chunks together).
>
>Where am I supposed to get them? ../common/?

Yep. You can use the resc1440-mac.bin for resc1c1440.bin (just rename it). 
The 'cat chunks together' only applies if you had to use floppies to get the 
base2_0 to your machine. I still don't know if a tool exists to glue the 
chunks together, so you'd have to use Linux :-) Just get the whole base2_0.tgz
in one piece.

>Can this be the cause for the hang?

Nope. I don't know what your Mac is, so I can't speculate on the reason for the
hang. That seems like a kernel problem to me, so it's best discussed on the 
linux-mac68k ML.

	Michael


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