Hi all, I just started trying out MacBSD on my Q8409AV since the latest
info sez it should be feasible. I d/l'ed the following:

booter (1.9.4)
mkfs
NetBSD/Mac Install utility
comp12
etc12
base12
games12
text12
man12
netbsd12
misc12

Then I used FWB's HDT 1.7.5 to initialze my original 230MB HD into an
Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partition, with an 80MB A/UX swap partition.

>From there, I ran mkfs, then the NetBSD/Mac install utility. I selected all
of the archives (it took quite awhile to unpack) & selected 'build devices'
from the file menu.

Then I ran the booter. In Booting... options, I selected:
single-user
extra debug info
don't warn about untested platform
kernel name as netbsd
partition name as Root (named that via FWB)
auto-size RAM.

Then I tried to boot & it went well in the booter's window. Here's what it
gave:

Logging to bootlog
Booting...MID_M68K executable: entry 0x3356.
768516+57516+99064+45588+48244

Set _boothowto to 0x2.
  Bye-bye...
        So I sez to him...  The real way
        that it should be done is to...
Env: "ROOT_SCSI_ID" set to 0 (0x0).
Env: "SINGLE_USER" set to 2 (0x2).
Env: "VIDEO_ADDR" set to 1343228416 (0x50100a00).
Env: "ROW_BYTES" set to 1152 (0x480).
Env: "FLAGS" set to -2147349190 (0x80020d3a).
Env: "SCREEN_DEPTH" set to 8 (0x8).
Env: "DIMENSIONS" set to 57017472 (0x3660480).
Env: "BOOTTIME" set to 851771625 (0x32c500e9).
Env: "GMTBIAS" set to 0 (0x0).
Env: "BOOTERVER" set to 108 (0x6c).
Env: "MACOS_VIDEO" set to 1343228416 (0x50100a00).
Env: "MACOS_SCC" set to 1357922304 (0x50f04000).
Env: "MACHINEID" set to 78 (0x4e).
Env: "MEMSIZE" set to 56 (0x38).
Env: "GRAYBARS" set to 1 (0x1).
Env: "SERIALECHO" set to 0 (0x0).
Env: "SERIALCONSOLE" set to 0 (0x0).
Env: "SERIAL_MODEM_FLAGS" set to 0 (0x0).
Env: "SERIAL_MODEM_HSKICLK" set to 0 (0x0).
Env: "SERIAL_MODEM_GPICLK" set to 0 (0x0).
Env: "SERIAL_PRINT_FLAGS" set to 0 (0x0).
Env: "SERIAL_PRINT_HSKICLK" set to 0 (0x0).
Env: "SERIAL_PRINT_GPICLK" set to 0 (0x0).
Env: "PROCESSOR" set to 2 (0x2).
Env: "END_SYM" set to 1020464 (0xf9230).
Env: "ROMBASE" set to 1082130432 (0x40800000).
Env: "TIMEDBRA" set to 10010 (0x271a).
Env: "ADBDELAY" set to 782 (0x30e).
Env: "HWCFGFLAGS" set to -1024 (0xfffffc00).
Env: "HWCFGFLAG2" set to 1224738847 (0x4900081f).
Env: "HWCFGFLAG3" set to 50380582 (0x300bf26).
Env: "ADBREINIT_JTBL" set to 1082213216 (0x40814360).

Set _mac68k_vrsrc_cnt to 0.

Then it went to what I'm assuming would be the root login screen/info.
Everything looked okay, but right after it sensed NuBus, it said
"arghh, no boot device!!!!"

I thought that it may have gotten confuzzled with the swap partition, so I
deleted that & added its size to Root's partition. Same error. Then I tried
using sd0a for partition name. Same error. I'm sure that I'm missing
something simple since it's getting so far & I know it can read the
partition if it's getting that far.

Any help is greatly appreciated

TIA

Mike Schabert

ps if you see this more than once, it's because I posted it to newsgroup,
AltMacOs mailing list & the 'official' NetBSD/Mac port mailing list.

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