Subject: Re: How does one install NetBSD on a mac cube?
To: Dave Low <supermac@hawaii.rr.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/26/2001 16:01:53
At 1:29 PM -1000 3/26/01, Dave Low wrote:
>I tried to put a choice in, but nothing could be typed.  The machine had
>frozen.
>

This may be an OF 1.0.5-specific thing, but if you have auto-boot? 
true then the keyboard is not initialized and does not work in 
ofwboot.  Maybe not relevant.

>
>on 3/26/01 1:14 PM, Henry B. Hotz at hotz@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
>
> > At 11:58 AM -1000 3/26/01, Dave Low wrote:
> >> I got a lot further today.  I copied ofwboot.elf,  boot.fs, netbsd.ram.gz,
> >> netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz, ofwboot.xcf to the root of Macintosh HD.
> >> Then I used SystemDisk2.3.1.smi to determine that Macintosh HD is hd:9 and
> >> then in OF
> >> 0 > boot hd:9,ofwboot.elf hd:9,boot.fs <return>
> >>
> >> The boot loader ran and I got to where it asks for the terminal 
>and gives a
> >> choice of vt100
> >>
> >> At that point the whole operation gets stuck and friezes up.
> >>
> >> Any ideas at this point????
> >
> > Nothing strikes me.  I presume you tried blank or vt100 as choices.
> > They should be the minimum risk options.
> >
> > I guess I'm not too surprised you had to use a -current snapshot.
> >


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