Subject: Re: boot/install...frustration...HELP!...grr...
To: William Ingle Gillis <will@dircon.co.uk>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/13/1996 15:31:56
William Ingle Gillis wrote:
>
> >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)
Well, I'd guess that that is your first problem! Try turning off _ALL_ of your
extensions, _especially_ RAM doubler! You don't want your Mac's memory map to
be anything other than standard when you boot up MacBSD!
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