Recommended Booter versions

Version: 1.9.4, October 1st, 1996
Author: Brian Gaeke
  * First Booter to support any 68040 (i.e. Quadra-class) machines. Known to
    boot kernels from NetBSD/Mac68k versions 1.1 and later. For kernels older
    than 1.1, your mileage may vary -- in theory the support is still there,
    but it's not been tried in quite a while

Version: 1.11.1, December 3rd, 1997
Authors: Scott Reynolds, Nigel Pearson
  * User interface improvements, plus the following changes from earlier versions:
  + Allows booting with larger kernels (many post 1.2 kernels require this Booter)
  + New 'Auto Set GMT bias' checkbox which uses the 'Map' Mac OS Control panel
    to set Unix's time zone information
  + New ability to boot from gzip-ed kernel files
  + New serial fields to set different default serial port speeds
  + New Monitors options which allow changing of the main screen depth before
    booting
  + If boot is aborted, resets monitor depth
  + Saves preferences in a separate file, rather than in the program's resources
  + Added video address hack for LC475/LC575 Macs' console on internal video
  + Handles kernels in Mac OS files much better
  + Better debugging/error output for low-level SCSI stuff

Version: 1.11.3, April 18th, 1998
Authors: Nigel Pearson, Eugenio Macia Vivo
  * User interface changes and addition of 'jump into debugger after booting'
  * Bug fixes (serial booting, hang if a removable SCSI device was offline,
    problem with monitor depth & resolution-changing logic), plus the following
    changes from earlier versions):
  + Booter now checks for Virtual Memory, and pops up an alert and exits if used
  + Monitors options now allow changing of main screen's resolution and colour mode
    (to greys) before booting. The latter is for some of the new Xservers which
    don't work with colour yet
  + Now correctly kills running applications


       Information about other versions of the Booter can be found in the file
ChangeLog.txt in either the Booter src archive, or at:
http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/booter-manual/ChangeLog.txt

                                       Nigel Pearson <[email protected]>
                                                             30th July, 1998

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