Subject: Re: booter freezes on SE/30
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/07/2002 00:43:30
On 06.06.02, 09:26:54, Jim Balhoff wrote:
> minimal System 7.1 with only the MODE32 extension. After launching the
> booter app, I set it to single-user mode and chose Boot now...
> Here is where the trouble begins:
> It prints:
> Booting...transparent = 1
> MID_M68K executable: entry 0x2e00
> 1806668+100204+227448+208980+209617
> Attempting to kill all running programs...
> Bye-bye...
> So I sez to him... The real way
> that it should be done is to...
>
> Here the computer freezes with MacOS still onscreen showing the above text in
> the booter window. I have tried Booter 1.11.4a3 and 1.11.3. I searched the
Try the booter 2.0alpha, it is available at
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/installation/misc/
I also had trouble booting custom kernels on my Quadra 650, although
the generic 1.5.x kernel booted fine, with booter 1.
The old booter versions will, I think, not boot elf kernels (1.6+) at
all.
> archives to this list for a while and could not find any references to this
> problem. If anyone could offer suggestions I would much appreciate it!
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
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Bernd Sieker
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