>I tried booting NetBSD 1.2 on my Mac IIvi.
>It boots fine with
>  - serial console
>  - (fake) internal video
>but it stops dead when I use my Lapis fullpage display
>( 640x873 pixel, 1 - 8 bit gray scale,
>  graphic card: ColorServer II Lapis-15, CS II-15L) .
>Unfortunaltely this is the only display I have...
>
>
>When booting with Booter 1.9.4, this is how far it gets:
>
>>[ preserving 285042 bytes of netbsd symbol table ]
>>Bootstrapping NetBSD/mac68k.
>>Getting mapping from MMU.
>>System RAM: 20971520 bytes in 5120 pages.
>>     Low = 0x0, high = 0x1400000
>>Non-system RAM (nubus, etc.):
>>     Log = 0xf9000000, Phys = 0xf9000000, Len = 0x6000000 (100663296)
>>  no internal video at address 0 -- videoaddr is 0xfcc00004.
>>Done.
>>Bootstrapping the pmap system.
>>Pmap bootstrapped.
>>Moving ROMBase from 0x40800000 to 0x9ed000.
>>Video address 0xfcc00004 -> 0xbed004.
>
>
>I tried the GENERIC kernel and a kernel I compiled myself from
>current-sources around Dec. 16th. The result stays the same.
>
>The very same graphic card works fine with NetBSD 1.1 kernels I
>compiled in mid april 1996.  A kernel compiled end june 1996 (still
>NetBSD 1.1) didn't work, but I am not sure whether it is the same
>problem.
>
>Any ideas or comments on this?
>
> -walter
I run a Mac IIvx with NetBSD, which i assume has similar if not identical
hardware (i think the only difference was the IIvx was sold in US and the
IIvi was sold anywhere *but* US. something like that). I had the same
problem you had. I solved the problem when someone on this mailing list
told me they knew the exact problem, which resolved to running a messed-up
booter. i run Booter 1.9, and that should work for you. get just plain, old
1.9. not 1.8, not 1.9.1, 1.9.4, or anything else. 1.9 should work for you
(provided there aren't any video card imcompatibilities)
good luck =)
  - a