Subject: Re: Alpha2 on SE/30
To: None <macbsd-general@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: None <jeffl@melb.arc.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 01/12/1994 09:25:28
> I wish we had enough money to keep a lab of all machines available
> for testing... Just keep the feedback coming; we'll try to work you
Pppzzooooowwwww!!!! Screeeeeeecccccchhhhhhh!!!!! Ahh, Hendrix. 8-)
Anyway, I made some progress....
> Uh... The MacSideUtils have changed significantly.
> The most current MacSideUtils are the contents of MacSideUtils.cpt.bin
> on cray-ymp, substituting newbooter-8k_4k for the Booter.
In fact, this worried me so I loaded it down again. The installer seemed
to report that it was 0.2 -- I already had 0.3 so I don't know whats going
on but continued to use 0.3 anyway
> replace the distribution "netbsd" or simply boot from "netbsd.II"
> until you're comfortable with it. An alternative would be
> "netbsd.CI.bin," which we know runs on a Mac II with an '030
> accelerator. Let us know how much luck you have with either of
> these. (I assume you already copied down netbsd.II, or you wouldn't
> have included the discussion on locore.)
All of the following were done with the 8k/4k booter in 24 bit mode.
netbsd.ii: freezes after 1 (ONE) gray-bar
netbsd.ci: 22 gray-bars (yowee! thats the first time I have seen that
many) then freeze
netbsd-current: (This was #11 23 Dec 23:09:15)
boots right up to
"A: Root 'A/UX Root' .....
B: Swap 'Swap' .....
and then freezes. Console swapping seems to work cos the
screen flickers but there are no shells or logins anywhere.
> 1) Please let me know what the dates are on those applications, and try
> the most recent ones when you get FTP service again.
I haven't re-mkfs'd the disk and I assumed that 0.3 was better than 0.2 so
embarassingly I appear to have ignored this almost completely. If you
like, I can go back and do it .....
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