On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Stefan Voss wrote:

> > > Well, I don't have an A7000 but I would like to boot a VRAM-less RPC.
> > > I have tried kernels 4339 and 4444 but they one show the usual "only 8 bpp
> > > support". 
> > > 
> > > Which kernel do I have to use or what parameters do I have to set?
>
> ...
> 
> Just a little translation for you non-german speaking folks:
> Markus' advice is to use the new bootloader and set the field "Video DRAM"
> to 0K.
> 
> I followed his advice and downloaded BtRiscBSD V2.80 (13th July 1996).
> After verifying that the "Video DRAM" field was set to 0K I tried booting
> kernel 4444 and got the "only 8 bpp support" message again. 

At which point does this message appear? It so happens that I tried to
install 1.2-beta to my (currently VRAMless) machine for the first time
last night.

I set "Video DRAM" in the bootloader to 1024K (it was 0K by default)
on the grounds that I did want to use the machine's DRAM for video
there being no VRAM in it at the moment. Is this the correct
interpretation, or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

I booted from a 800x600x256 video mode and it started single user
without any problems.

I've partitioned the RiscBSD portiton of the disk, made filesystems
and got to the state where I can boot single user using the root
filesystem on the hard disk. I'm going to take the required sets home
this evening and try them out. I'm not clear if this is further than
Stefan has got, or whether I'm going to hit problems later when I try
and go multi-user?

Regards,

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