Subject: Re: PowerBook 550 doesn't boot
To: INOUE Katsumi <kinoue@jp.oracle.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/06/1998 08:56:21
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, INOUE Katsumi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 04:48:07 -0800 (PST)
>  > From: SamMaEl <rimsky@teleport.com>
>  > 
>  > > I found a workaround. In Mac-OS, if I just let AppleTalk use
>  > > 'ethernet' or 'remote'. It always boots fine.
>  > 
>  > 	Oooooh... so the Appletalk is on and using the serial port. Do you
>  > actually have the Powerbook connected to a Localtalk network?
> 
> No, it isn't. Nothing is connected to the port either. Strangely, just
> turning AppleTalk off doesn't fix the problem. Even booting with extension
> off doesn't.

Weird.

Do you have another machine on which to compile kernels? I changed
something in -current yesterday which should help things here. I can send
you the patch.

Also, when it hangs, can you show the next few routines of the stack
trace?

Take care,

Bill