Subject: Re: Duo230
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Anders Borghed <Anders.Borghed@emw.ericsson.se>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/07/1996 12:47:09
> Hi all,
> I just downloaded the 1.9.4 Booter, and the netbsd12 GENERIC #1 kernel, and to
> my delight managed to get it partially working on a Powerbook Duo 230 12/120
> running System 7.1.
> It runs through all the diagnostics in MacOS without hassle, then the screen
> clears to white and the following appears.
> 
> [ preserving 93836 bytes of netbsd symbol table ]
> Bootstrapping NetBSD/mac68k.
> Getting mapping from MMU.
> 
> The prompt freezes at the line directly after this, and it won't continue.
> I've made sure that VM/RamDoubler are off and tried booting without extensions,
> but as I suspected, it made no difference.
> Turning of and on the VBL interrupts option in the Booter didn't help either.
> 
> Has anyone else had any success with booting NetBSD on Duos?
> The fact that the console is working seems quite promising to me, and I'm
> hoping someone will tell me that I just need to use a different kernel.
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
> 

You should try the kernel made by Daishi Kato it's made specifically for the 
DUO 230 and I have used it to succesfully boot my DUO 280 into single user mode.

Check out: http://shimura-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/~daishi/daishi-e.html


Anders Borghed