On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 02:35:24PM +0100, aNDREa wrote:
> When tryin' to install NetBSD on my Amiga (1200T
> with BlizzardPPC 040+603e+scsi and BVision running
> CGX) I found some problems I'm not able to solve
> by myself:
> 1. how could I redirect the video output to my gfx card?

not at all, until the driver has been written.

> When I boot I always get the video output to the 15khz
> pal tv...
> 2. I can boot directly from the swap partition in the Boot
> Menu, but after my computer loads the kernel and allocates
> the mem I get the video output always on my pal tv,
> and this time it seems to be at 31khz as screen flushes
> and I cannot to see anything (the same as if I give the
> -A option to loadbsd)...
> 3. the kernel doesn't seem to be able to detect my ide hd,
> when booting: it configures correctly the fd but when
> it tries to open the hd it fails and from the prompt asking
> for the root device I'm only able to select the fd or to
> halt... strange thing, don't you think? May it possibly
> caused by the fact that I have an IDE doubler running
> IDEFix?

Definitely. "IDE doublers" make your hardware non-standard. especially,
one of the status registers and one of the command registers is missing.

Both of our drivers can't work with that, not even with the "first two"
drives.

Regards,
	-is