On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, John Wright wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install NetBSD 1.4 on my RiscPC 700 but I'm not getting very
> far.  
> 
> It's got an ARM 700, no FPA, an EtherB card in the network slot, 1Mb VRAM,
> 32Mb DRAM and a 1Gb harddisc as the only IDE device.
> 
> The problem is that both the netbsd.RPCINST and netbsd.RISCPC kernels do not
> get further than the second bootstrap.  They don't panic, give me a prompt
> or even display a cursor they just stop.
> 
> So.  I click boot with the kernel being loaded from the local ADFS disc.
> The screen blanks to dark grey, the colours appear at the top of the screen,
> the screen blanks to black and the white writing continues until the second
> bootstrap.  Nothing happens.
> 
> Missing a configuration option?  Using the wrong kernel?  Need more info?
> 
> The system currently has NetBSD 1.1 on it (may even be 1.0) which loads fine
> I just think it's time to upgrade it.  When the 1.4 kernels work I'll
> overwrite the existing 1.1 stuff.
> 
> It starts booting from RISC OS 3.60 held in ROM.
> 

I have the same problem on my RiscPC 600 with ARM 600, RISC OS 3.5, 20MB
DRAM, 6.4GB harddisk and CD-Rom drive.

Marcus Pries
 

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