Subject: Re: Booting Q800 gives white screen
To: Tom Jernigan <jernigantc@ornl.gov>
From: Thomas Bjorn Andersen <tba@gen-v.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/18/2002 21:25:45
Thanks a lot, that did the trick :-)

Is this a new behaviour for NetBSD?  I had OpenBSD pre-2.7 booting with
extensions enabled and the same booter.

Thomas

On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 15:02, Tom Jernigan wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a similar problem with my centris 650 running netBSD 1.5.2. 
> I've found I have to disable extensions in sys 7.5.5 to avoid the 
> "white screen of death". To enable auto restarts after power 
> failures, I  just moved the entire extensions folder out of the 
> system folder, but kept it handy in case I wanted to do more in 7.5.5 
> than boot netBSD.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Tom
> 
> At 9:35 PM +0100 2/17/02, Thomas Bjorn Andersen wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I spent most of last night trying to boot my Quadra 800.
> >
> >I installed 1.5.2 including the kernel and tried to use booter 1.11.3
> >and 1.11.4a3.
> >
> >No matter what options I set, I get the "So I sez to him", and the
> >screen changes to white and then nothing happens.  If I hit the debugger
> >switch, I get the kernel debugger but I can't enter anything.
> >
> >I don't have any NuBus cards installed and nothing attached to the
> >serial ports.
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Thomas
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tom Jernigan,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory, jernigantc@ornl.gov
> Phone (865) 574-1166, FAX (865)574-1191