Subject: Re: Booting my IIsi bomb seriously
To: None <msjoelin@cap.se>
From: Bjarne =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E4ckstr=F6m?= <Bjarne.Backstrom@abc.se>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/17/1996 00:40:05
>     I have problems. I have read the FAQs as well as gone through a bunch
>     of old postings on the mailing-list and can't find anything that would
>     help me so here I go.
>
>     I can't boot my Mac IIsi with NetBSD 1.1 installed on a disk.
>     It runs smoothly until the following:
>
>     PRAM: 0x30fb9d05, macos_boottime: 0x30fb9cf9
>     Kernel illegal instruction trap
>     pid=3D1, pc=3D....
>
>     and then the registers and the stack follow and I end up in debug.
>
>     I have also tried the generic v 50 kernel on ftp.eskimo.com but it
>     gives the same result.
>
>     Clues, anyone?
>
>     BTW!
>
>     Mac IIsi
>     9 MB memory
>     2 x 80 MB disk
>     internal video
>     standard mouse & intl keyboard
>
>     I had a Shiva ethernet card in it, you didn't think I got it there on
>     floppy, did you? But it hung at once in the booter with it installed
>     so I removed it.
>
>     Thanks in advance/Michael
>
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   That looks very much like what you get if you set the amount of memory
in the booter manually. Don't do that with the new booters. That was the
only problem I had when I installed NetBSD/mac68k on my MacIIsi.

Lycka till (good luck),
/Bjarne.