Subject: Re: Performa 4400 with broken floppy
To: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
From: Jaron Omega <inphrared@ephemeron.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/11/2000 01:30:43
Doesn't the Performa 4400 have NuBus instead of PCI?


On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Martin Husemann wrote:

>I have a Performa 4400 which won't boot NetBSD from any medium I tried. It
>has OF 2.0.something. Booting from floppy fails due to read errors (probably
>that drive is broken, I get errors when formatting disks on MacOS too).
>
>It's won't boot from CD nor the internal IDE disk (grey screen and then hangs)
>
>It can boot Linux via the XBoot App without any problem :-(
>Only problem: I don't want to run Linux on it.
>
>If I dd (on another machine) the boot.fs from the snapshot onto another IDE
>drive and replace that disks (or add it as a second disk), do I have a chance
>to boot from this?
>
>
>Martin
>