Subject: Re: BSD/Mac68k Booter Problems
To: None <Netzhaut@t-online.de, port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Paul Sander <paul@wakawaka.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/12/2000 10:46:01
Netzhaut@t-online.de wrote:

>I am a newbie to UNIX Systems and want to try out NetBSD or OpenBSD for
>setting up a file- and printserver. I have a problem with the BSD/Mac68k
>Booter v.1.11.3 and 1.11.4 on my machine (Quadra 840AV, 80 MB RAM, MacOS
>8.1).
>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.
>On another disk I installed OpenBSD 2.6. Starting this system doesn=B4t work
>at all. Till the dialogbox appears everything seems to be allright. When I
>click "boot now" the machine makes the same silly noise, the screen turns
>white and the cursor stops at the upper left edge, typing anything.
>Can anybody give me hint to solve the problem ?

It might be MacOS 8.1.  I use 7.6 on a similarly configured system with
no problems.