On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 22:14 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > If you really want to bypass extensions when using BootX, boot with the > Shift key and use the Control Panel.
It's not clear to me what machines he's talking about... but I think a PowerBook G3 model 2000 is a newworld machine which isn't supposed to be used with BootX. In general, I also recommend booting oldworld's via Open Firmware when possible (it can be made to work with beige G3s for example using some Apple nvram hacks and netboot works with almost every oldworld machine out there using bootp/tftp, you can netboot the zImage.coff). OF booting is always more reliable than BootX. The problem with BootX is that it "kills" MacOS but that sometimes leaves some hardware devices in some active state, potentially bus mastering or doing other horrors behind linux back and corrupting memory. You should use BootX if nothing else works. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
