Re: does someone have a working Beige G3 rev. a

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On May 8, 2008, at 04:49, Erik Bertelsen wrote:
> >  I really wonder if I don't have a hardware problem. I wish that I  
> > could
> >  find someone with a known working Beige G3 firmware 2.0fl system.
> >  Although I may need to installboot again before it will work.
>
> I have one of these machines, that has been running
> NetBSD-macppc/current for quite a while.
>
> Right now I'm not sure whether it has finally died, but after a recent
> powerfailure I does not generate any screen signal.

Probably needs a CUDA reset, mine pulled something like that a while  
ago. Pull all power cables, remove the battery, let the machine sit  
over night, put things back together and cross fingers.

> Anyway to get It to run NetBSD i was never able to get it to boot from
> a NetBSD CD. Although it was a bit flakey and typically required a few
> attempts, I did a clean install (without using MacOS X) by booting
> from the the two-disk floppy disk set that is part of the NetBSD
> release for macppc.

Yeah, I never got the firmware to load anything from a CD ( and the  
MacOS X CD boots the old MacOS way, bypassing OF ) and I couldn't be  
arsed to use floppies - for that I'd have to write them either in  
MacOS ( and install it first ) or write a driver for the Sun U10's  
floppy controller ( yeah, that was before John Nemeth's work ). I  
found netbooting comparably easy and straight forward, just pretend  
it's a Sun with OBP3. Booting a machine like that from a sparcbook  
looks kinda funny though :)

have fun
Michael

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