Subject: Re: Booting a Quadra 840AV
To: None <hommes@derioc1.organik.uni-erlangen.de>
From: None <ariel@redestb.es>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/10/1997 09:47:34
Nico van Eikema Hommes wrote:
> 
>      Hello Ariel,
> 
> I just read your message about the problems booting MacBSD on a Quadra 840.
> It may be, that you need a more recent kernel (I have a Quadra 650 that
> would not boot with GENERIC#22, but did boot with GENERIC#23, latest is #26),
> perhaps you need a GENERICSBC kernel (same numbers) or the special kernel
> called "madhatter#35" that I'm now using. With this onw, dt and X work,
> at least in monochrome. If you want to try it, you can download it from
> Adrian Fowler's homepage: <http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~adrian>.
> Otherwise, booting without extensions is advisable, I have not seen any
> effect of having the CPU cache turned on or off.

Thanks, I tried the Generic 25 under the latest snapshot and the SBC
counterpart to the 25 and 16. Even adventured with the
madhatter#35(Thanks for the link), but unfortunately no luck.

I am still trying, so if you have anyfurther advice, I definetly will
appreciate it.

Ariel