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one for @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?

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.

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.

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.



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.

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

Awesome! So what did you change? You mean you brought up "not grub" and booted the install from there? Or something else?

No, it was just that I had the video set up wrong the first time I tried it. I just used the boot application.

this means it might actually be worth dual-booting the TAM...

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.

My 400MHz G4 works, although BeOS doesn't recognise the processor correctly. Gets the speed wrong and calls it unknown. Guess my 466MHz G3 would be faster given BeOS isn't using Altivec.

I realise that my cache must not have been set up properly on my G3 466MHz because I don't imagine BeOS is altivec optimised, so there is no reason for the G4 400 I just benchmarked in a virtualised Mac to outperform my previous high score from the faster G3.