Subject: Re: Probs with a Q840AV
To: None <MCap527@aol.com>
From: Nigel Pearson <nigel@ind.tansu.com.au>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/08/1997 17:32:36
> 
> I'm trying to boot on GENERIC-17, which I think that someone mentioned might
> work.  Well, it goes along fine for a while (I see it identify all my scsi
> disks), but then I get this:
> 
> PRAM: time does not appear to have been read correctly.
> PRAM:  0x8da807e, macos-bootime 0x23d170f2
> 
> the numbers seem to change every time, I also got:
> 
> PRAM: 0x83da807e, macos_bootime 0x2d16a49
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this?

	On my Q840av, I had to set the GMT Bias in the Booter, which caused
these two numbers to more closely match. Look at:

http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/macbsd-docs/faq/faq-5.html#ss5.


	As for a kernel that works, the first one I got to work reliably
(i.e. before I started making my own) was:

ftp://ftp.macbsd.com/pub/outgoing/briggs/for.hans
 
	Another, more recent one, which adds X-windows support for up to
1MB of VRAM, is:

ftp://host4.alterity.com/pub/netbsd.gz

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