I have tried to get NetBSD onto my c600 but was never able to. I can
tell you that apple's System Disk patch for OF did get OF to work for
me. Beyond that all I ever got was a "CLAIM FAILED" error. As I had
already patched OF I was never able to try anything else to get beyond
this point. :(
If you scan the list archives you'll see a couple of success and partial
success stories with this machine. None of what was suggested ever
worked for me though.
Best Regards,
Adam Russell

Ethan Preston wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:29:22 Ethan Preston wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I appreciate that this is not a supremely technical question but it
> is
> nevertheless a critical component of installing NetBSD and I hope
> that
> I will be able to get assistance from this group. Thanks in advance
> for any help you can get me.
>
> I have a Umax c600 on MacOS 8.5 that refuses to boot to Open Firmware
>
> in a way that permits me to boot into the sysinit installer.
>
> 1) Rebooting and pressing OF option-command results in a blank screen
> and no input.
>
> 2) Working on the assumption that 1) I got into OF but 2) a serial
> console is required, I attached a PowerBook Duo, ran Kermit in
> terminal
> mode, set up the modem stats for 384000 8/N/1, booted the Umax and
> went
> into OF. Nothing--the serial console doesn't work. I'd appreciate
> someone telling me what I'm doing wrong here.
>
> 3) I am able to set bootvars to always going to OF and I consistently
> get the blank screen/unresponsive monitor+keyboard/power on
> combination
> that I am assuming is an open firmware prompt. I am not able to get
> the SystemDisk to do the same thing. (Obviously, if I could, I might
> be
> able to set OF to use the screen and the kbd.) Starting up,
> SystemDisk
> complains that I do not have Mac OS X; attempts to save in the first
> screen meet with failure. Save as file in advanced options produces a
> file, but does not produce an effect when restarting. (The file is on
> the
> desktop; if this is the problem, please let me know where it should
> go.)
>
> Many thanks, your help is much appreciated.
>
> Ethan

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