On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:50:24AM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> I'm trying to boot netbsd on my flat panel iMac, but as soon
> as the kernel starts printing the display goes black, except for
> some keyboard related error message at the bottom.
> I think the boot succeeds, because I managed to reboot by blindly
> typing things to the keyboard.
> Has anyone else seen this?

Make sure your LCD isn't getting dimmed by default. On other LCD
equipped macs this happens on boot and you need to turn the brightness
up. I hope your brightness buttons on the mac keyboard work :(

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#black-lcd

Regards,
  C.
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