On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 2:56 AM 10/20/97, Christopher R. Bowman wrote:
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>Here's the bootlog of my Q660AV with netbsd-971009.gz. Is the 660 supported
> >>or is it completely different from the 840?
> >>
> >> - Stefan
> >>
> >>[stuff delete]
> >
> >I never was able to boot on my 660av becuase I always started up  with
> >extensions enabled, after all they never stopped my IIci, but low and
> 
> I can second Colin's suggestion about zapping PRAM.  Don't change
> *anything* after you do so, not even turning Appletalk back on.
> 
> My experience with an 840AV is that MacBSD is rock solid after it gets up,
> but the booting process is very fragile.  The MacBSD utilities are OK but
> if I just run Fetch before booting *BSD then it doesn't work.
> 
> I am running a minimum 7.6.1.  It may work better if I backgrade to 7.1.  I
> intend to try one of these days, but the machine stays in *BSD all the
> time.
> 
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I have never had to zap the PRAM, and things seem to work fine on my
system 8.0 660av, but between zaping the PRAM and turning off inits,
I think that most av related problems can be solved.

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