On 20-Jun-97 Armen Babikyan wrote:
>>Michael R Zucca wrote:
>>>
>>> > Everythin goes fine on my vx until I try to boot. It gets to the
>copyright
>>> > statement and hangs.
>>> > Looking at the FAQ, I have done the following:
>>>
>>> There's a bug in the latest booters that breaks booting on the IIvx.
>>> Try an older booter like 1.9 or so.
>>
>>
>>I have installed yesterday evening NetBSD on my IIvx, and like
>>Daniel R. Killoran, my system hangs. So yes, probably a bug.
>>
>
>yup, i had the same problem a long time ago when i installed NetBSD on my
>IIvx.
>regular checklist for boot problems was:
>-32 bit addressing on (i never changed this anyway)
>-VM off
>-Appletalk off (hmm, i wonder if rerouting through ethernet fixes the
>problem also. it's just serial interrupt problem, right?)
>-color depth set to 1-bit or 8-bit color (16-bit used to hang, dunno if
>this has changed or not...)
>-version 1.9 of booter used.
>
>by the way, some people mentioned using 1.9.4 of the booter, but that was
>the version i was having trouble with...what gives? are there different
>"batches" of IIvx's shipped by apple? or does it depend on system software,
>etc...?
>later,

Using the Booter 1.9.5, my system hangs,
using the Botter 1.9.4, all is ok.

So ?


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