Subject: Re: Mac IIx won't boot
To: Mark Hastings <markus@halcyon.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/16/1996 21:57:33
> 
> I've been trying to get NetBSD running on my old Mac IIx, but can't seem
> to get very far in the Booter.  I get as far as the following screen.:
> System details:
> Mac IIx
> System 7.5.1
> 8 Meg RAM
> HP 320 Meg HD
> 
> -----------
> 
> System RAM 8386080 bytes in 2048 pages
[snip]
> ...mapping():To many Nubus ranges
> Non-system RAM (nubus,etc):
[snip]
> no internal video at address 0 videoaddr is 0xfaa000c0
> done
> Bootstrapping the pmap system
> Failure in BSD boot. nextpa=0x106000, high[0]=0x100000.
> Panic: You're hosed:
> Stoped at _Debugger+0x6: walk a6
> db> unexpected trap; vector offset 0x0 from 0x739c0000.

Sounds like you need Mode32 and 32-bit addressing. The newest booter won't
let you boot w/o it.

Take care,

Bill