Subject: Re: can't boot NetBSD on a PowerMac G4
To: None <beewax@gmx.net>
From: Michael Wolfson <michael@nosflow.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/03/2003 11:43:05
At 8:28 PM +0200 6/3/03, beewax@gmx.net wrote:

:)it writes something rapidly and then It shows a grey forbidden / stop
:)sign. Like the one of ghost busters  :)

Grey screen means it's trying to boot MacOS.  The stop sign is from the
MacOS X bootloader saying that you asked it for a weird file.

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#grey-screen

Where did you put ofwboot.xcf?

And which 1 GHz PowerMac G4?  The Quicksilver 2002 model should be fine,
the Mirrored Drive Doors model hasn't been tested yet, and the FW 800 model
doesn't support the built-in ATA100 bus (which has the Apple-installed hard
drive).

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html

  -- MW