Tonight (while I should have been studying) I decied to see how far the
powerbook 550c kernal got through booting on my Performa 637. It got a lot
farther then I expected. In fact, it stopped at :
     ARGH!! No Boot Device???? Only support DISK device for Booting
     changine root device to a
     panic: cannot mount root
     stopped at    _Debugger+0x6: unlk a6

Since I was booting with the kernal on a MacOS side it couldn't go any
farther then this. This leads me to wonder if NetBSD could run on the 630
series with a SCSI drive and serial console. My main doubt is that the
kernal displayed some info about ncrscsi not being configured. Is this the
same thing that is stopping other 040's from working?

Any comments?

Specifics:
Mac Performa (Quadra) 637CD (68LC040)
8 megs ram
System 7.5
Booter 1.9
Extensions off, B&W mode

Transcript of boot sesion:

[Preserving 96167 bytes of netbsd symbol table]
Bootstrapping NetBSD/mac68k.
Faked Range to byte 0x800000.
Bootstrapping the pmap system.
Pmap Bootstapped.
Moving ROMBase from 0x40800000 to 0xa00000.
Video address 0xf900100 -> 0xc01000.

(Regent stuff)

NetBSD 1.1B (550c) #21 Tue May 14 16:16:02 JST 1996
hamada@appricot.etron.kanazawa-it.ac.jp:/home/hamada/src/sys/arch/mac68k/com
pile/550c
Apple Macintosh Quasdra 630 (68040)
real mem= 8388608
avail mem= 5234688
using 128 buffers containing 524288 bytes of memory
mrg: `Quadra/Centris ROMS` Rom Glue, tracing off, debug off, silent traps
adb: bus subsystem
Got Following HwCfgFlags: 0xec80, 0x4100183f, 0x46807926, 0x, aa7ef8
mrg: Skipping egret setup
adb: Calling ADBReInit
adb: Hardware Type (Cuda) not yet supported for this machine
adb: adb support is disabled
mainbus0 (root)
ite0 at mainbus0 (minimal console)
adb0 at mainbus0 (adb event device)
ser0 at mainbus0
nubus0 at mainbus0
ncrscsi0 at mainbus0 not configured
ncr96scsi at mainbus0 not configured
sbc0 at mainbus0 not configured
asc0 at mainbus0 Apple Sound Chip
fpu0 at mainbus0 (emulator)
floppy0 at mainbus0 not configured
ARGH!! No Boot Device???? Only support DISK device for Booting
changine root device to a
panic: cannot mount root
stopped at    _Debugger+0x6: unlk a6

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