Subject: Re: Mac II won't boot
To: None <apreco@mag-net.com>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/09/1997 19:14:22
> A few months back, I was trying to get netbsd to boot, with no luck. I
> gave up beacuse I thought it might have been because I only had 4mb of
> ram, or beacuse of my video card.  Now, i've upgraded to 8MB and
> installed an apple 8 bit video card, and it still wont boot. It gets the
> the part where its supposed to clear the screen, but instead it just
> freezes.  I do have the PMMU installed, i'm running system 7.5.5, I have
> mode32 7.5 installed, 32-bit addressing is on, VM/ram doubler is off,
> and SCSI is terminated.  I've disconnected my hard drive and put it on
> an LC475, and it was able to at least clear the screen, so I know the
> kernel isn't corrupted.  Anyone able to help?

What does a bootlog say?  (If you turn debugging output on in the Booter, 
that is).  BTW, what video card did you install?

Later.

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