Subject: LCII will not boot, the kernel never gets control
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Marcus Daniel <danielm@uni-muenster.de>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/01/1998 13:00:33
Hello, all you friendly port-mac68k people out there.

I have a little technical problem, where your help would be very much
appreciated.

I own an old LC II with 13" color screen (8bit 640x480) 12MB of RAM (but
only 10MB accessible by the LC) and a Seagate ST120IN (170MB) harddrive
that replaced the original Conner 40MB unit. The Seagate was partitioned
with the original mac utility which I have patched with the patch lying
around on info-mac. Otherwise there is nothing
special about it that I know of.

The MacOS is D-7.0.1 (the German version), the Booter is 1.11.1 and the
kernel I tried to boot is the current kernel and the 1.3.1 release kernel,
both pulled from the original german mirror of ftp.netbsd.org. Of course I
tried to boot without any controls or inits or whatever installed.

My problem is that the kernel never seems to take over the system.
Everything works fine up to the point where it says:
    
     Set _mac68k_vrsrc_vec to {0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 }.
     Closing log file

The screen is switched to monochrome, floppy disks get ejected, the screen
is redrawn and everything freezes including the mouse pointer.

Why is that happening ? Shouldn't the kernel take over and say something
about being netbsd and such and doing some hardware probing ?
The LCII is listed as a clean machine or did apple build different versions
after all ?


Help would be great and thanks in advance.


Marcus


P.S. the mac is in 32bit mode with virtual memory disabled and the kernel 
is a gzipped one, so I think
there should be no problems with it being falsely downloaded as a text file.