On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Dirk Hoppe wrote:
> When I start the booter it switches the screen to B&W and shows the
> dialogbox. So far, so good !
> When I click "boot now" the speaker of the  machine makes an awfull loud
> noise (1 second), but starts to boot into NetBSD 1.4.1.

Does it successfully boot NetBSD, or does it hang during the boot
process? From what I can tell, the loud noise is caused by the kernel
being relocated on top of the sound chip's DMA buffers, which usually
causes the kernel to be corrupted. Try going to the Sound control panel
and turn off the passthrough (I forget exactly what it's called in
pre-MacOS 8, but in 8.1, uncheck Sound Input's Listen checkbox in the
Monitors & Sound control panel). If that doesn't work, reset the PRAM
(hold down Command-Option-R-P while it's rebooting, until it chimes
again).
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