Subject: Re: Booting MacBSD problem
To: Michael Robinson <miker@mind.net>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/01/1997 16:49:03
> Thanks to the help I received from this list, I managed to get MacBSD
> installed on my IIsi. Now I'm not sure if I'm having a probelm when I try
> to boot up. I seem to be almost there! I followd all the FAQ's ans when I
> run the Booter it boots into NetBSD without error messages, gets as far as
> the white screen with black type that says, Bootstrapping
> NETBSD/mac68k..blah, blah..Bootstrapping the pmap system. pmap
> bootstrapped..blah, blah...Copyright...Regents of...etc.

Sounds familiar, see below...

> That's it.
> I have a black cursor box but it's frozen. I can't type anything, nothing
> more happens. Everything has worked so well up to this point.
> 
> IIsi, 17 mb ram
> Daystar accelerator - universal '030, 30 mhz with fpu
>                 (for which I need to run the control panel Power Central.

Here's your problem.  NetBSD/mac68k does not currently support the cache 
used on the Daystar Board.  Feel free to turn on the rest of your 
extensions, just turn off the Power Central control panel.  I started 
noticing similar behaviour on my IIci around November or so.  I finally 
tracked it down to the Daystar Power Central extension.

> 840 mb hard drive partitioned as MacOs 340mb, A/UX Root& Usr Slice0 420mb,
> Swap 70mb.
> MacOS 7.5.5, no extra extensions except Power Central

See above.

> and FWB's CD-Rom Toolkit 1.6.1.
> NetBSD/Mac68k Booter 1.9.4

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX