Subject: Re: Problems booting a IIcx
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
From: Olof Johansson <offe@dc.luth.se>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 06/08/1995 15:01:49
On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, Allen Briggs wrote:
> Are you on a localtalk network? The boot sequence is sensitive to
> an active localtalk connection. I just made a change that might
> help this.
>
> If that's not it, my next guess is that something is running a lot
> of interrupts and we're not set up to handle them correctly, yet.
> This does need to be fixed, but that won't help you now.
Unconfiguring AppleTalk doesn't help. :(
> This is because the NuBUS probe routines don't know the currently active
> video configuration and a number of cards have quite a few to choose
> from, so it chooses the default (sRsrcID 0x80) for that info. This is
> also "in the works." Do you have access to a simpler video card and
> monitor to try with that?
Well, I'll ask around at work if there's a used card somewhere. I have a
640x480 monitor on my IIsi, so that's no problem. The computer doesn't
boot the current kernels with any of the monitors though.
-Olof