Subject: Re: LCIII question?
To: Jens Thordarson <ktz@mmedia.is>
From: Michael Peters <sailor@oro.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/28/1997 20:21:42
  
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Jens Thordarson wrote:

> At 25.8.1997, York P. Block wrote...
> 
> >I installed netBSD on my LCIII and I am having a problem when I try to boot
> >in multi-user. It starts ok until it hit "starting networking" and then
> >hangs. I have a MacCon LCIII and I am using GENERIC-36 kernel.
> 
> I used an LCIII with almost the very same configuration for a few months...
> the key is, use GEnERICSBC-26.
> It works fine with me, every other kernel seemss to crash VERY frequently,
> then I mean, if it comes up, I can use it for a few seconds an then
> everything goes down, but that is IF i can boot up, which happens a very
> few times. But after i got genericsbc-26 (ADBTEST 160 works fine, also) i
> haven't experienced any problems at all...


  Also try looking around for GENERICSBC-15 or -16.  either of those work
well on the LCIII.  I've been running the -15 kernel for many months now
without /any/ crashes.  Methinks the LCIII support is still a little
sketchy in the -current tree.


--Michael D. Peters