Subject: Re: Mac II won't boot
To: None <apreco@mag-net.com>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/13/1997 16:51:14
> > > >Do you have _any_ extensions enabled?  What kind of video card do you
> > > >have?  This is a Mac II, so do you have MODE32 installed?
> > >
> > > Just to be pedantically complete, it is worth noting that the Mac II
> > > requires the Apple MMU be replaced with a real PMMU...
> > 
> > Isn't this the machine with the Daystar '030 accelerator in it?
> > 
> Whoops! Forgot to mention that! Could be my problem there. The faq does
> say that the card should work, and I've tried with both caches enabled
> and disabled.  
> 
> The card has a socket for a 50mhz '882 FPU, which is currently empty. I
> have an FPU, which is the 16mhz '881 on the motherboard.  When ever I
> use FPU programs, they all use the '881 just fine, but maybe bsd expects
> to see an '882? 
> 

Probably not the problem, since NetBSD supports '030 machines with no FPU.
If it caused any kind of problem, it certainly wouldn't be a problem at
that point in the boot...

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX