Unfortunately,
That is not it.  Serial console is not selected to on in the booter.

I checked a little.  I have
	BSD/Mac68k Booter v1.11.1
	NetBSD/Mac68k Installer v1.1g

Also, I ran good ol' TATTLETECH and found this in regards to my ethernet card:
	MacCon Ethernet
	Board ID = 8
	Vendor ID = Asante Technologies, Inc.
	Revision Level = Alpha 1.0
	Part # = MacCon Ethernet
If this means anything to anyone.

Now...the walkthrough shows setting the boot partition to NetBSD Root&Usr
rather than a partition identifier like /dev/sda6  or /dev/sd0f or
something like that.  Which is more what I remember from setting up MkLinux
in the past.  That was more along the lines of sda5 rather than sd0 like
this seems to use.

The installer now seems to show the partitions as sd0a, sd0b, sd0c, etc.
with sd0a being the root&usr part.
Trying entering sd0a as the partition netted me a freeze where even my
cursor disappeared.  entering /dev/sd0a gave me the same freeze, where my
cursor just hangs.

But in any case.  Would this boot partition naming have anything to do with
this freeze.?
I know I have had NetBSD boot on this machine once before, the only
difference hardware-wise is the monitor.  Previously it had an Apple15"
monitor (one that came with a Performa 6360) and now it has this
mono-Radius Pivot.

Also, the hard drive is formatted with FWB 3.0, i've not had issues with
this prior though, i just thought I'd make it known.

Hopefully someone has seen this behavior before.  This all seems very
bizarre to me.

-Jim


>AstroZomby wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I've been lurking on this list for a while, and now have finally gotten
>> around to trying to make an install of NetBSD.
>>
>> In any case, obviously, I'm having troubles, or I would not be posting them
>> here.
>>
>> I'll start out by stating that I tried following the step by step
>> installation made available @
>> http://users.erols.com/ewinkler/installguide/installguide.html
>>
>> All seems to go well until I actually get to the first boot now.  Here's
>> what happens.
>> I changed and reformatted the partitions with MKFS, and used the
>> NetBSD/Mac68k Installer to install the required items.
>>         kern.tgz
>>         base.tgz
>>         etc.tgz
>>         comp.tgz
>> after the install completed, built devices.
>>
>> after a reboot to mac os 7.5.3, and launching the BSD/Mac68k Booter
>> set the correct SCSI ID.  0  for the hard drive.
>> set the BSD Device kernel name and partition as explained in the
>> installation guide at the aforementioned site.
>> set to single user mode.
>> on attemp to boot, from the booter, it gets as far as:
>>         "Bye-bye...
>>                 So I sez to him...  The real way
>>                 that it should be done is to..."
>>
>> This is where it locks up the entire system.  No mouse response, and no
>> keyboard either.  Must restart by resetting the power.
>>
>> I had it on this machine once before, but kept having monitor issues.  Now
>> I have a monitor dedicated to the IIci, hopefully I'll be able to make this
>> work.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated....
>> Equipment specs below.
>>
>> -Jim
>>
>> Mac IIci
>> 24Mb Built In RAM
>> Cache Card
>> Radius Pivot Display Model 0361, which runs fine with the IIci's built in
>> video (I get all 16 shades of gray!)
>> And, and Asante Ethernet card of some sort, unsure of model though.  I have
>> to dig out TattleTech or something.
>>
>> MacIIci HD
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ID 0; Part 1 = Partition Map                  Apple_Partition_Map
>> ID 0; Part 2 = Driver Objects                FWB Driver Components
>> ID 0; Part 3 = Active SCSI Driver          Apple_Driver43
>> ID 0; Part 4 = MacIIci HD                       Apple_HFS
>>         45mb
>> ID 0; Part 5 = /swap                      Apple_UNIX_SVR2               48mb
>> ID 0; Part 6 = /                                     Apple_UNIX_SVR2
>>         310mb
>>
>>
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  Jim Yanko                "Don't mistake lack of talent for genius"
>
>Jim,
>
>In the booter do you have the box checked for "Serial Console on" ?  If so
>un-check
>it and see what happens.  -Mark



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 Jim Yanko                "Don't mistake lack of talent for genius"