On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> > This is what happened:
> > I setup the options and preferences to what they were suppose to be and
> > then I tried to Boot now.  It went through the whole sequence without a
> > problem and got to a white screen with some black text on the top.
> 
> Sounds good so far.
> 
> > It then stayed there and after about 10 seconds, the whole screen got
> > filled up from the bottom with a red and green vertical line pattern.  It
> > filled up the screen fully and then just stopped there.  I have let it sit
> > there for 5 minutes but it doesn't do anything.  I tried hitting return,
> > ESC, control c, control x, control l, and numerous other keys.  I don't
> > know what's wrong.  I am then forced to restart the computer using the
> > front Restart button.  I have tried to change the options and quit and
> > then come back to the booter but nothing helps.  I am also restarting
> > with no extensions on while trying all this.
> > 
> > Can you help me?
> 
> Is there any chance you can tell us just how far the boot process got?  
> If I knew where it started having trouble, it might be a bit easier to 
> troubleshoot.

Well it got past the booting application but I never got to a prompt.
Basically, I get a white screen with a line saying something about the
system table and then it fills the screen with those strange vertical
lines.  The IIci then freezes and I have to hard restart it.

> > I have: > > Mac IIci (normal, no weird cards, etc.)
> > 16 MB RAM
> > 430 MB Hard Drive (formatted and partitioned with Hard Disk Toolkit 1.6.2)
> > Unknown Ethernet Card (free from a friend)
> > Built-in Video (no card)
> > Cheap 14" Mitsubishi monitor (uses a converter to hook into the computer)
> > Running System 7.5 (with and without extensions)
> >
> > As you can see, I have most everything that is standard except maybe for
> > the fact of the ethernet card but I haven't even gotten to try that out!
> > 
> > I haven't gotten to any prompts or logins at all yet, just that weird
> > screen.
> 
> I'd try setting your video to B&W _before_ booting.  This might helps 
> things a little.

Nope.  I tried setting both the Monitors control panel and the Options to
black and white but nothing changes except that the vertical lines are
just B&W now instead of color.  I still get the weird vertical lines after
the line about the system table.  And I still freeze and have to force
restart the computer.
  
> > BTW, what is the difference in port-m68k and port-mac68k?  Is there any?
> 
> Big one.  The port-mac68k mailing list is for discussing issues relating 
> to the Mac port of NetBSD.  The port-m68k list is for discussing issues 
> relating to all of the Motorola 68000-series processor-based ports of 
> NetBSD.  Chances are, very few questions you may have will pertain to the 
> latter, so use the former list.

Thanks for explaining this.

> -- 
> Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
> Consultant                                        Rice University
> Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX

Anyone including Colin have any ideas for me?

BTW, I didn't have any problems in any of the previous steps
(formatting, partitioning, mkfs, installing, etc.).

- Matt

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