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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    It does work for OF 2.4 on my G3 (I mispoke) but on DBOF 2.0, I get translatiions, no word as you surmise. ... Using the above, I get...
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    Thanks greatly for these code snippets which (except for dump-vt) work well on my 7100 and Beige G3. The main issue with the 7100...
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    Yep. In my case, a similar problem showed up after recapping and persisted after replacement of UE13. Removal of caps C10..C13 again...
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    I've now confirmed that the nvrm resource of Mac OS Loader can be edited to change the initial value of 'real-base' and 'load-base'...
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    Thanks for this effort. It does seem to show that the Loader constructs nvram in memory from using a number of its resources. This is...
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    I'm able to launch the BSD boot loader (ofwboot.xcf) from the floppy but I get in dreaded OFW claim failure since I'm unable to override...
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    Resuming after a vacation pause... I reverted my PM7100 to 24MB RAM (down from 136MB). After repairing the boot volume which was...
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    So I went back and installed a clean System 7.5. I had to grab a copy of the original 61/71/8100 installation CD from Macintosh Garden...
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    Thanks. Looking at release dates, 7.5.5 was Sept 96 whereas Copland D11E4 was June 96 .. so it may well matter.
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    Yes and no. On my first install, it booted back into 7.5 and I used System Picker to select the OS8 system folder. That seems to screw...
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    And poking around the Copland D11E4 install kit, the previously attached ofw and nvram images are resources in the Mac OS Loader "app"...
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    This is all fascinating and covered nowhere on the web. In fact, if you now google about it, you'll be sent this this very thread! I'm...
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    speakers replied to the thread PowerMac 7100 and Linux.
    I've tracked down the ram mis-configuration issue to a problem with BootX's PDM video re-mapping. BootX modifies the memory map passed...
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    I've recently been tinkering with some 68k assembly code in a program originally developed for MacOS7. I'm using CodeWarrior Pro 4 under...
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    Yes, 1 should be connected to 2.
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