On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, @-- ReeD ->- wrote:

> 	Hello everybody! I have a Macintosh IIsi which I have been 
> running NetBSD on for over a year now, and it works quite nicely (outside 
> of the fact that there is no color X, or ansi colored text...) Anyways, I 
> just recently got a friends IIfx with an Apple graphics accelerator card. 
> I tried to boot NetBSD on the IIfx, and it didn't work. Perhaps this is a 
> problem due to the fact that on my IIsi I installed NetBSD onto an 
> external; hard disk, which I run off of. When I got the IIfx, I simply 
> unplugged the external hard drive from my IIsi and into my IIfx... Would 
> this cause a problem, since it was configured for a IIsi? Just a guess... 
> When I boot up in 32-bit mode in b/w mode, it gets past the booter, 
> clears the screen, but then says the following:
> 
> 	no internal video at address 0 -- videoaddr is 0xf9900020.
> 	panic: Unknown/unsupported machine class.
> 	Stopped at	_Debugger+0x6:  unlk     a6
> 	db> 

The IIfx doesn't work, not now and probably not ever, there is just to much
custom hardware in there to really make it doable.

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Christopher R. Bowman
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