On Tue, 21 May 2002, Chris Pinnock wrote:

> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:16:21PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> > In article <20020521134349.B25482@roystonvasey.local> you write:
> > >Has anyone successfully booted NetBSD on a system without VRAM (e.g.
> > >A7000+)?
> >
> > Yep.  I run it on an NC, and we got the install kernel to boot on a
> > RiscStation on Sunday.
>
> Do you get screen corruption when you boot the kernel? At this point
> my A7000+ freezes.

Between the kernel starting and the VIDC being detected, the screen is
running in the wrong mode (the console code assumes a VIDC20 to start
with), but this sorts itself out after the VIDC is attached, and
everything's fine thereafter.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/acorn26           <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/acorn26/>