On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:36:13 -0400 Allen Briggs <briggs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've grabbed an old G3 iBook and I'm trying to boot NetBSD on it. > I picked up a couple of different macppccd.iso images from the > release engineering server. One from NetBSD-5RC3 and one from > NetBSD-4_0. Both of them look like they start to boot, but after > ofwboot.xcf is loaded, the screen clears to grey with a slightly > darker grey circle-slash. That's a new one on me. I presume it > means that something failed or is hosed. > > Could it be because I haven't partitioned the internal disk yet? > (I'm still looking for a boot DVD to boot for repartitioning, so > I should find out, maybe tomorrow, if that's it) > > Anyone seen this one before? It's not in the FAQ or release / > install notes... Yeah, I've seen that one before. It's been a while though, so we'll see if I can dredge the culprit out of memory.... Hmm. What's the firmware major version? And what boot command did you throw at it?
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