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Phipli
Phipli
Yes, that is very silly.

So silly, I think you should be ashamed.

Can I share the photo on a BeOS group, to show how silly it is?
Phipli
Phipli
Oh, BTW, I'm curious, if you get the Sonnet extension to load before the BeOS bootloader, can you start BeOS with an L2 G3 upgrade? I've never put BeOS on my 6500 to try.
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cheesestraws
yeah, feel free to share. It .. misbehaved when I ran it after the sonnet extension, but I don't know if that's the G3 or something else. Didn't get any video, but it did make a noise, which suggests it booted. More fiddling needed.
Phipli
Phipli
Interesting.

BeOS 5 and 4.5 certainly know about G3s and even G4s. But obviously the L2 is a little weird compared to the CPU slot upgrades in a 9600.

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I don't have a picture of a G4 to hand. I might go and dig one out. I've been considering trying it with an 800MHz Sonnet.
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cheesestraws
fiddling was successful: running the BeOS loader after the Sonnet G3 gubbins had loaded apparently made it work with the G3. Worth knowing. Forgive phone photo

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Awesome! So what did you change? You mean you brought up "not grub" and booted the install from there? Or something else?
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cheesestraws
No, it was just that I had the video set up wrong the first time I tried it. I just used the boot application.
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cheesestraws
this means it might actually be worth dual-booting the TAM...
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I had to change the file type of the bootloader to get the Sonnet extension to load first, but can confirm that I only get a grey screen with the 800MHz G4.

I'll try something a little more tame.
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