At 01:08 PM 11/18/97 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Hmmmm...are you sure that ADB is the problem?  I'm pretty sure that most
>if not all of the PowerBooks should be supported by the HWDIRECT ADB code
>that is now in the kernel (but not currently used by kernels being
>distributed).  If someone were to compile such a kernel for you, it should
>be able to handle the ADB.  However, I seem to remember that there are
>some internal video mapping problems on all of the PowerBooks which hangs
>the boot sequence...a serial console boot avoids this, thus allowing you
>to boot.
>
>Do you see something different?

I've heard a bit of both from several different people, and
from perusing the port-mac68k archives.  I _do_ know that it hangs
at the "Preserving X bytes..." message (or something like that --
I'm not at home with my machine at the moment).

I think Michael Zucca said recently it was probably due to internal
video mapping problems, which he'd like to fix "the right way", now
that I think about it, rather than just hack it together.

If that is indeed the problem, does anyone out there know
what the problem is, specifically?  Michael, any new progress?

- Tim

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