About booting on a Classic II, Colin Wood (and others) suggested:

>Can you try booting a -current kernel from MacOS?  That's really the only
>way to know for sure.  Scott has made some changes recently that just
>might (with emphasis on the might) help that machine work....

Tried the GENERIC-81 kernal and it stopped after the screen cleared with 
the message:

System RAM: 10452992 bytes in 2552 pages.
     Low = 0x0, high = 0x9f8000
  no internal video at address 0 -- videoaddr is 0xfee09a80

But then nothing and I have to hit the bong button.

[I assume the memory information is correct - 10Mb of memory with the 
512x342 display at the top ending at the highest byte.  Why is high less 
than start of video? - I knew this once but have forgotten.  Is something 
mapping here?]

I also used the new GENERIC-82 kernel with the same results.

This is the same behaviour as the original 1.3.2 kernel.  

Should I be using the other current kernels rather than straight GENERIC? 
 I couldn't find an explanation for what the others were, but I thought 
that the HWDIRECT option was now turned on in GENERIC, so I shouldn't 
need any other options, should I?

Yours,

Andrew Foakes

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Running NetBSD version 1.3.2 on a Classic II
See http://www.foakes.demon.co.uk/NetBSD.html for details