Subject: NetBSD on a Classic II
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Andrew Foakes <andrew@foakes.demon.co.uk>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/28/1996 21:44:13
Hi,

I realise I sent this to the wrong address at first.  Gosh, what an idiot!

I'm desperately trying to give my Classic II extra life before it hits the
skip by running NetBSD on it.  However, I don't seem to be able to get
anything at all out of the boot.  The full transcript of what I see on the
screen after the MacOS display has gone is something like:

[preserving 89324 bytes on netbsd symbol table]
Bootstrapping NetBSD/mac68k.
Getting mapping from MMU.
System RAM: 10452992 bytes in 2552 pages.
   Low = 0xfee00000, Phys=0x9f0000, Len=0x10000 (65536d)
   no internal video at address 0 -- videoaddr is 0xfee09a80
Done
Bootstrapping the pmap system.
Pmap bootstrapped.
Moving ROMBase from 0x40a00000 to 0x1800000
Video address 0xfee09a80 -> 0x8609a80

That's it.  I then wait along time and finally give up and hit the bong
button.  I have tried to log in via a serial line, but to no avail.

Some more details:

Hardware - Classic II, 10 Mb with FPU fitted.
           40Mb internal MacOS hard drive.
           320Mb external (SCSI 1) - 200Mb NetBSD, 100Mb MacOS and 20 Mb swap.
           MacOS is 7.0.1 with tuner version 1.1.1, booted with extensions off.
           Memory is 32 bit mode, diplay is B&W (!).

Software - NetBSD/mac68k version 1.1 pulled off ftp.netbsd.org.  Using
booter 1.8 and also pre-release booter 1.9.  Both gave exactly the same
messages.  netbsd11, base11, etc11 and man11 installed in that order.
Nothing else at this stage.  After etc11, I built the devices.  No errors
where reported during the installation.  Also tried ADBTEST.110 and
ADBTEST.111 kernels.

What does the boot process do next after printing out the video address?
If I knew what it was trying to do when it got stuck, then I might be able
to at least get it to do tell me something useful.  I can't even find any
log files in the /var directory (or anywhere else, for that matter).

Yours,

Andrew