Subject: Re: Quadra 610 fails to boot
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@canolog.ninthwonder.com>
From: Chris Jones <cjones@honors.montana.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/06/1998 13:03:38
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Allen Briggs wrote:
> > Okay, I've tried both netbsd-GENERIC.gz and netbsd-GENERICSBC.gz from
> > 1.3.1. These were both ftp'd in binary mode directly to the Mac, and they
> > seemed to gunzip without trouble, so they're probably not corrupt. Both
> > make the machine hang.
>
> ...and you've tried booting them before gunzipping?
Yup. I told the booter to boot netbsd-GENERIC.gz. It started loading,
paused (while it gunzipped, I'm assuming), and then loaded the file. Then
it hung.
> > I don't actually have a BSD partition at this point, since I did a
> > re-install of MacOS; I'm assuming that the kernel will at least be able to
> > autoconfig without a partition to boot off of.
>
> It should, yes. Your hardware's all basic stuff, right?
> This is really wierd. It's got to be something simple...
Yeah. Quadra 610. 12M RAM. Internal Apple 160M drive. External Apple
CDROM. Apple Monitor. Apple keyboard & mouse. That's it.
Chris
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