Subject: Re: Booting MacBSD problem
To: Michael Robinson <miker@mind.net>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/01/1997 16:49:03
> Thanks to the help I received from this list, I managed to get MacBSD
> installed on my IIsi. Now I'm not sure if I'm having a probelm when I try
> to boot up. I seem to be almost there! I followd all the FAQ's ans when I
> run the Booter it boots into NetBSD without error messages, gets as far as
> the white screen with black type that says, Bootstrapping
> NETBSD/mac68k..blah, blah..Bootstrapping the pmap system. pmap
> bootstrapped..blah, blah...Copyright...Regents of...etc.
Sounds familiar, see below...
> That's it.
> I have a black cursor box but it's frozen. I can't type anything, nothing
> more happens. Everything has worked so well up to this point.
>
> IIsi, 17 mb ram
> Daystar accelerator - universal '030, 30 mhz with fpu
> (for which I need to run the control panel Power Central.
Here's your problem. NetBSD/mac68k does not currently support the cache
used on the Daystar Board. Feel free to turn on the rest of your
extensions, just turn off the Power Central control panel. I started
noticing similar behaviour on my IIci around November or so. I finally
tracked it down to the Daystar Power Central extension.
> 840 mb hard drive partitioned as MacOs 340mb, A/UX Root& Usr Slice0 420mb,
> Swap 70mb.
> MacOS 7.5.5, no extra extensions except Power Central
See above.
> and FWB's CD-Rom Toolkit 1.6.1.
> NetBSD/Mac68k Booter 1.9.4
I hope this helps.
Later.
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Colin Wood ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant Rice University
Information Technology Services Houston, TX