allen,

vaguely i remember there was a hack to make think a iisi (and iici) the
first 512k of ram are filled, which are used on that machines as video
ram. would that be a workaround?

kind regards,

ulrich

On 5:29 Uhr +0200 21.07.1999, Allen Briggs wrote:

> > I've just installed NetBSD onto my old IIsi with 5MB of ram and a
>Radius
> > TPD 19 display and nubus video card.  The system boots fine when I use
> > internal video for my main display but when I use the video card
>display,
> > NetBSD only prints memory information and nothing else.
>
> Actually, it would work if you plug something into your internal display
> port to make the mac think that you have something there.  Basically,
> the problem is that the memory map is different if you have a display
> present and if there is no display present, you only have 1MB of RAM at
> physical address 0, which isn't enough to load NetBSD.  It would be
> great if someone could get around to fixing this, but it's not very high
> on anyone's list...
>
> -allen