For Macs without the 32-bit clean ROM, you need to get the System
Extension called Mode32.  Last time I looked it was sitting on Apple's
ftp site - free download.

On Wed, 23 May 2001, der Mouse wrote:

> I've got a IIci which I've been running NetBSD/mac68k on for some time,
> quite happily.
> 
> Recently I got a IIx dumped on me.  The mac68k ports page lists this as
> supported; however, I had some trouble.
> 
> I tried just moving the disk from the IIci.  (The MacOS install on the
> boot partition, I figured, might not work, but it's worth a shot.)
> MacOS came up fine, and autostarted the NetBSD booter...which promptly
> fell over with an alert box telling me to enable 32-bit addressing.
> 
> Fine, thought I.  I quit the booter.  I got the Control Panels window.
> And I double-clicked the Memory control panel.
> 
> Nowhere is there anything about 32-bit addressing.  There's a section
> about "Disk Cache", marked "Always On", with a box to change its size;
> there's also a section "Virtual Memory" with On and Off buttons.
> Nothing about 32-bit addressing.  (FAQ question 3.8 looks related, but
> not applicable here; as far as I can tell there is no internal video on
> the IIx.)
> 
> The very same disk works fine if I take it to the IIci.  Do I just have
> to do a separate install of MacOS on the IIx to get it to behave?  Will
> even that work? :-)
> 
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