Re: Why not BootX on Rev 2 G3 (New World) ??


Subject: Re: Why not BootX on Rev 2 G3 (New World) ??
From: Dr. David Sterling (sterling@boulder.nist.gov)
Date: Sun Jun 17 2001 - 23:15:08 MDT


christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Dr. David Sterling wrote:
> >Hi. I'm running a rev 2 G3 with YDL 2 installed on a slave 30GB IDE
> >drive.
>
> <snip>
>
> >Following my natural instinct (being a shoot-from-the-hip type of dude
> >sometimes) I hastily installed bootX and to my (semi-)surprise
> >everything works fine now and I start YDL with the bootX extension. But
> >this is a new world rom system so this shouldn't work, right?.
>
> Is your G3 beige? AFAIK, only TupperMacs (blue and white) are New
> World. So, the Rev 2 isn't New World, and that would explain your
> problems.

I have a Blue and White and based on the discussion at:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/newfeatures.html
it is Rev 2.

D



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