Hi,

Have you tried increasing the memory allotment for the Booter application?
I would find whatever the recommended size is and triple it in the
"Preferred" field (assuming that you have that much RAM).

Also, are you sure that you do *not* have virtual memory running under
MacOS (that include RAMDoubler)?

Mark

On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Clark Martin wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was trying to install NetBSD onto one of my computers and had a problem.
> When I launch 'NetBSD/Mac68k Booter' and tell it to boot, it seems to work
> okay, gets to the confirmation dialog, accepts my 'OK' and then hangs after
> very brief HD activity.
> 
> My system is:
> Mac IIci
> Monochrome monitor (640x480, 256 grays) using the onboard video
> Asante Ethernet card
> 8Mb RAM
> SCSI ID 0 is an 850Mb drive, all Mac Partition
> SCSI ID 1 is an 730Mb drive
> 	 20Mb HFS
> 	200Mb UNIX_SVR2->Root file system
> 	 32Mb UNIX_SVR2->Swap
> 	363Mb UNIX_SVR2->Usr file system
> 
> Both Mac Partitions have System 7.6.1 on them.
> 
> NetBSD/Mac68k Booter was tried with the following settings:
> Single User: checked & unchecked
> Extra debuffing info: unchecked
> GMT Bias -360 & -480
> No env dumps: checked
> Don't disable VBL...: checked
> Don't bug me about...: unchecked
> Show dialog & wait for OK...: unchecked
> Halt boot on non-fatal errors: unchecked
> 
> Kernal Location: NetBSD/mac
> Kernal Name: netbsd
> Partition Name: root or (blank)
> Root SCSI ID: 1 (it defaults to 2 for whatever reason
> Ask?: Off
> Miniroot: (blank)
> RAM: 8
> Auto-size RAM: unchecked
> 
> NetBSD v 1.2.1 (per the docs and disk)
> NetBSD/Mac Install Utility 1.1
> NetBSD/Mac68k Booter, v 1.9.5
> 
> I did pretty much a full install of NetBSD.  It was installed from CD-ROM
> that was located on another machine, accessed via FileSharing.
> 
> mkfs_1.4 does list an error:
> 
> get_DeviceInfo: Error on SCSIRead(), #5, retry 0
> Probably just a phase error, ignore the error -- this time.
> 
> I get it every time I run mkfs_1.4.  It didn't seem to affect formatting or
> installing the software.
> 
> I had no other trouble during setup and install.

Best wishes for the new year,

   Mark Andres               E-mail: mark@giganet.net
          Running NetBSD, 100% Microsoft Free!
   Me & NetBSD: http://www2.giganet.net/~mark/NetBSD/