Subject: Re: Performa 550 problem
To: person1994 <person1994@earthlink.net>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/05/1997 16:43:51
person1994 wrote:
> 
> I have a performa 550 running system 7.1p5 with 16Mb of RAM . The rest 
> is standard (except a Think Mouse). I tried to install NetBSD121 on it 
> and it did not work. I used the instructions and did evering thing like 
> it said, but when I go to the booter and start it up I have:
> MID_M68k executable :entry 0x3356
> and then some numbers
> and then a dialog box comes up telling me that NetBSD has not been 
> tested on my hardware yet. I have the chose of continuing or to cancel. 
> If I continue the computer just froze.
> Now, does anybody have any idea what is going on?

Yes, NetBSD-1.2.1 didn't support your machine.  According to my data, the
NetBSD-1.3_ALPHA snapshot _should_ work just fine, tho.  Try downloading
and installing the 1.3_ALPHA kernel and see if it will boot for you.
Please let us know how it goes.

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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