Sorry, Brad, for the duplication, but I forgot to edit the "To" line before sending it. Dagnabbit, it's not supposed to work that way! =(
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 01:20:08AM -0500, Jesse R. Lucke wrote: >> Hee hee. Yes, that's true--and this SE/30 really does have 7.6.1 installed. The secret ingredient? Insert 1 IIfx (or IIsi) ROM. Add a pinch of Wish I Were. Presto, chango! A 32-bit clean SE/30! It'll even support 8.1, or so I'm told... (hopefully this hasn't been fouling Linux... :-) > > This would almost certainly choke up Linux if you are changing the gestalt ID of the machine. Linux currently trusts the ID passed > in by Penguin in order to check for installed hardware. > Hmm. I did have Wish I Were set to 'IIfx,' but hadn't thought about the implications of that. > In particular, the VIA style is drastically different on the IIfx and IIsi compared to an SE/30, and that is determined entired based on the ID passed in by Penguin. Just that one little detail would totally destroy interrupt handling and ADB, particularly if it thinks it is really a IIfx. > > What does Linux think the machine is? I'm pretty sure it prints > that out early in the boot process, and it's definitely in a > file in /proc somewhere. > Penguin it was a IIfx; some of my Mac apps did, others didn't. OS 7.6.1 doesn't seem to care one way or the other what ID the machine has--I changed the ID just 'cause the ROM hack instructions I had said to, but apparently it isn't necesary. Apparently some aspect of the ID-trickery was in fact fouling the formatting process as when I told Wish I Were to report the true value the installer suddenly started working right. It'll even boot properly (still from Penguin) with extensions enabled. Now, of course, it refuses to mount my Debian CD. Maybe I should try a newer CD drive--I'm using an old Sony/Apple 2x caddy loader. Any hints getting it to snag the data from the disc if I mount it on my PPC and make it available via FTP/HTTP? I tried this last night, and my server (FTPd) reported a hit but also an error. Thanks, Jesse
