Re: 3.0_BETA boots

On 10/24/05, Marcus Comstedt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Josh Tolbert <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Interesting. All I know is the thing was rock-stable (except for the crashes
> > when building certain things that expected some POSIX somethingorother to be
> > there that wasn't) under 1.6, but building anything under 2.0 is a total
> > gamble as far as stability goes. Is there any way to get info about which
> > revision of Dreamcast I have and whether or not it makes that much of a
> > difference?
>
> The board revision is printed on the component side of the main board,
> underneath the Maple connector sub-board.  It's not like we have any
> release notes from SEGA describing the differences though, so it's
> only useful for comparison.
>
> VA0 is the oldest released version, I think.

So much for being stable, mine crashed when attempting to build p0f
from pkgsrc. But I built tcsh from pkgsrc yesterday just fine. Ugh.

I've got 2 of these things now, my first one has a broken gdrom drive.
I'll open that one first and see what it is when I get time.

Andy