>I have a Mac IIci that i'm trying to get NetBSD to boot up on.  Have been
>playing round with different versions, kernels, and kernel-locations for
>about a week now, and have had no luck -- the same boot problem (described
>below) keeps happening quite consistently.  .  I'm guessing it's a hardware
>problem, but since i'm something of a Unix illiterate (i want BSD on my
>external drive so i can teach myself to use Unix), I really wouldn't have
>any idea what the truth of the matter is.
>
>I have included at the end of this letter a copy of the TechTool 1.0.9
>read-out of my computer specs (in it's normal running mode, and with
>RAM-doubler & other extensions turned on)
>
>What happens is that, once i start booting, the process seems to go
>perfectly normally on the Mac side.  Once the screen goes white and NetBSD
>takes over, however, the computer freezes and crashes shortly thereafter.
>It prints out the first three lines of the Unix boot process -- up till
>'Getting Mapping from MMU' -- at which point, it invariably freezes for a
>second or two, and then the screen simply fills from bottom up with thin
>red, green, & blue lines.  It also fills up with similar lines when i boot
>in 1-bit video mode.  I've seen this machine crash with various
>line-patterns before.  like most macs, it's a quirky animal.  but i've
>never seen it crash consistently like this (even with Netscape, which is
>usually its least favourite programme).
>
>I'm running 7.5.3 with 16MB of RAM, a 68030 & 68882, have 2 hard drive (one
>internal, one external) and a Zip drive.  the internal drive is the Mac
>drive, and the external is partitioned with 2 MB Mac, 18 MB A.UX 2.0 swap,
>and 219 A/UX Root&Usr.
>
>I have tried NetBSD version 1.1, 1.1 with one of the variant generic
>kernels (64, maybe?), current (as of 5 July), current with one of the
>variant generic kernels, current with generic-7, current with the
>ADBTest#139 kernel.  I have used Installer 1.0 and 1.1 & Booter 1.8 and
>1.9.2.  I've also attempted to boot using kernels located in both the BSD
>and Mac drives.   The same problem happens each time, and it is completely
>consistent (annoyingly so, actually).
>
>well, that's all i know, i guess, so here are the TechTool specs, followed
>by a boot log taken from Booter 1.9.2
>
>SCSI 0 is the internal (obviously), SCSI 6 is the external (which is
>internally terminated), and SCSI 5 is the Zip.
>
>any help or advice you can give would be greatly appeciated!
>
>thanks,
>William Gillis
>
>------
>
>>Machine Type: Mac IIci
>>CPU Type: MC68030
>>FPU Type: 68882
>>MMU Type: 68030 Built-in
>>QuickDraw Version: 32-bit Color v1.3
>>Keyboard Type: Extended ADB
>>TextEdit Version: TextWidthHook Available
>>Time Manager Version: Extended Manager Present
>>System Version: 7.5.3
>>ROM Version: $067C
>>ROM Size: 524,288
>>Appletalk Version: 0
>>Component Manager Version: 4
>>Text Services Manager Version: 1
>>Communication Toolbox Version: 7.5.0
>>Size of Low Memory Area: 8,192
>>Physical RAM Size: 16,777,216
>>Logical RAM Size: 33,554,432
>>OS Trap Table Base: $00000400
>>Toolbox Trap Table Base: $00000E00
>>Script Manager Version: 7.5.0
>>Number of Active Script Systems: 1
>>Addressing Mode: 32-bit Mode Active
>>Addressing Mode: 32-bit Compatible System Zone
>>Addressing Mode: 32-bit Capable
>>Alias Manager: Is Present
>>Alias Manager: Knows about Remote Appletalk
>>Connection Manager: Is Present
>>Connection Manager: Fix to CMAddSearch
>>Connection Manager: Has CMGetErrorString()
>>Connection Manager: Has Multi-Async IO
>>Comm Resource Manager: Is Present
>>Comm Resource Manager: Fix for Persistent Tools
>>Comm Resource Manager: Has Tool Resource Calls
>>Database Access Manager: Is Present
>>AppenDITL Calls From CTB: Are Present
>>Edition Manager: Is Present
>>Apple Events: Is Present
>>Folder Manager: Is Present
>>Font Manager: Outline Fonts Supported
>>Font Manager: Disk Cached Fonts Available
>>File System: Has HFSDispatch Dispatcher
>>File System: Has FSSpec Calls
>>File System: Has a File System Manager
>>File Transfer Manager: Is Present
>>File Transfer Manager: Supports FTSend and FTReceive
>>File Transfer Manager: Supports FTGetErrorString
>>Hardware: VIA1 Exists
>>Hardware: Has RBV
>>Hardware: Apple Sound Chip Exists
>>Hardware: SCC Exists
>>Hardware: SCSI Exists
>>Hardware: Has IWM
>>Hardware: Has Video D/A Converter
>>Hardware: Capable of Software Power Off
>>Hardware: Has Universal ROM
>>Help Manager: Is Present
>>Miscellaneous: Scrolling Throttle On
>>Standard NBP: Is Present
>>Notification Manager: Is Present
>>Operating System: System Heap is Growable
>>Operating System: Can Return from Launch
>>Operating System: Can Launch from Full File Spec
>>Operating System: Launch Control Support
>>Operating System: Temp Memory Supprt
>>Operating System: Real Temp Memory Handles
>>Operating System: Tracked Temp Memory Handles
>>Operating System: IPC Support is Present
>>Operating System: System Debugger Support
>>PPC Toolbox: Supports Real-Time Delivery
>>Quickdraw Features: Has Color Quickdraw
>>Quickdraw Features: GWorlds Deeper than 1-bit
>>Quickdraw Features: PixMaps Direct (16 or 32 bit)
>>Quickdraw Features: Text Mode grayishTextOr
>>Popup cdef: Is Present
>>Resource Manager: Partial Resources Exist
>>Serial: GPIa Connected to DCDa
>>Serial: GPIa Connected to RTxCa Clock Input
>>Serial: GPIb Connected to DCDb
>>Sound: Hardware has Stereo Capability
>>Sound: Sound I/O Manager Present
>>Sound: Play Double Buffer
>>Sound: Multiple Channel Support
>>Sound: 16-bit Audio Data Supported
>>Standard File: Has StandPutFile-CustomGetFile
>>Terminal Manager: Is Present
>>Terminal Manager: Error String Capable
>>Virtual Memory: Is Present
>>Dictionary Manager: Is Present
>>Icon Utilities: Is Present
>>
>>* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>>       DRIVE DATA
>>* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>>
>>SCSI Device ID: 0
>>Volume Name: Mac OS
>>Mount Result: Normal
>>Volume Status: Volume Busy
>>SFW Write Attribute: Not Locked
>>HDW Write Attribute: Not Locked
>>Number of Files: 3,451
>>Number of Folders: 671
>>Files in Root: 16
>>Used Bytes: 204,272,640
>>Available Bytes: 64,281,600
>>Total Bytes: 268,554,240
>>Creation Date: 20/3/96 9.01.32 am
>>Last Modified: 12/7/96 11.46.32 pm
>>Last Volume Backup: No Vol B/U
>>Write Count: 963,501
>>Drive Number: 7
>>
>>SCSI Device ID: 6
>>Volume Name: NetBSD
>>Mount Result: Normal
>>Volume Status: Volume Busy
>>SFW Write Attribute: Not Locked
>>HDW Write Attribute: Not Locked
>>Number of Files: 2
>>Number of Folders: 1
>>Files in Root: 2
>>Used Bytes: 67,584
>>Available Bytes: 1,993,728
>>Total Bytes: 2,061,312
>>Creation Date: 10/7/96 2.03.30 am
>>Last Modified: 11/7/96 12.19.38 am
>>Last Volume Backup: No Vol B/U
>>Write Count: 68
>>Drive Number: 6
>>
>
>-----------
>
>Booting...MID_M68K executable: entry 0x334a.
> + 48294
>
>Set _boothowto to 0x2.
>  Bye-bye...
>        So I sez to him...  The real way
>        that it should be done is to...
>Ser Console = 0
>
>Set _mac68k_vrsrc_cnt to 0x0.
>
>Set _mac68k_vrsrc_vec to {0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 }.
>Logging to bootlog
>Booting...MID_M68K executable: entry 0x183c.
> + 48578
>
>Set _boothowto to 0x2.
>  Bye-bye...
>        So I sez to him...  The real way
>        that it should be done is to...
>Ser Console = 0
>
>Set _mac68k_vrsrc_cnt to 0x0.
>
>Set _mac68k_vrsrc_vec to {0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 }.
>
>------------------
>William . . .
>------------------
>will@dircon.co.uk
>------------------
>  , ,
>, oo ,  "We're all mad here.  I'm mad.  You're mad."
>o -- o
> /__\                     -- The Cheshire Cat

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William . . .
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will@dircon.co.uk
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  , ,
, oo ,  "We're all mad here.  I'm mad.  You're mad."
o -- o
 /__\                     -- The Cheshire Cat