Hi all,
I have an original SS1 (40MB, GX+ video, ROM 1.3) that I am trying to install NetBSD 8.0 from CD-ROM on. After a little fumbling about for the right boot command from Open Firmware ("boot sd(0,6,3)netbsd" is the right thing for a CD-ROM at SCSI ID 6) and waiting a really long time for the installer kernel to load, I saw the kernel dmesg output scroll by. Unfortunately, as soon as the installer loaded it was to a white on white screen. I'm not even sure that the installer loaded correctly. I could control-C out of it and I assume at that point I've been dumped out to a shell prompt, but it's still white on white. My next step is to do this over a serial console, which certainly ought to solve things, but I'm curious as to what happened and/or what I could potentially do to fix this.
-Henry