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Re: Booting a G3 iBook



On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:36:13 -0400
Allen Briggs <briggs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I've grabbed an old G3 iBook and I'm trying to boot NetBSD on it.
> I picked up a couple of different macppccd.iso images from the
> release engineering server.  One from NetBSD-5RC3 and one from
> NetBSD-4_0.  Both of them look like they start to boot, but after
> ofwboot.xcf is loaded, the screen clears to grey with a slightly
> darker grey circle-slash.  That's a new one on me.  I presume it
> means that something failed or is hosed.
> 
> Could it be because I haven't partitioned the internal disk yet?
> (I'm still looking for a boot DVD to boot for repartitioning, so
> I should find out, maybe tomorrow, if that's it)
> 
> Anyone seen this one before?  It's not in the FAQ or release /
> install notes...

Yeah, I've seen that one before. It's been a while though, so
we'll see if I can dredge the culprit out of memory....

Hmm. What's the firmware major version? And what boot command
did you throw at it?

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