> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I am trying to install NetBSD on my Quadra 80av, and I came across your 
> email address in the MacBSD user survey.
> 
> Can you fill me in on how you got MacBSD working on your system? Was it 
> very difficult?

	The main thing was waiting for a kernel which supported the Quadra's
internal SCSI. The generic 1.2 distribution kernel will not do the trick.
You need a later custom kernel.


> I tried to do an install today, and I got the following error after 
> running the booter:
> 
> Argh!! No boot device???? Only supports DISK device for booting
> Changing root device to a+
> panic: cannot mount root

	This is probably because the kernel could not configure a SCSI device
driver, which prevented the rest of Unix (apart from the kernel, which was
loaded by the Booter program) from progressing.

	Try installing a later kernel, like:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/kernels/GENERIC-22


	over the files you have already installed, and make sure that you do
a "Make Devices" in the Installer. If that still doesn't work, send me the
boot information and we can go from there.

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