On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:26:50PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Has anyone ever thought about trying to re-burn the firmware in an OldWorld > with the NewWorld version? Probably wouldn't want to risk a perfectly good > box to debug it... you can't. oldworlds had OF on a real ROM, not flash. there is no way to upgrade it. if there was you can be sure apple would have released an upgrade for the beige G3s rather then the giant pile of kludges used to try and brute force OSX into booting on them (which still isn't all that reliable). you might be able to remove the chip and replace it if your skilled at fine electronics soldering, but you still have the problem of writing a compatible implementation of OF for undocumented hardware. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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