I had 1.2.1 running on my LCII since it came out until last month. The
last kernel that worked on it was GENERICSBC-15. I tested other kernels up
into the early thirties, but none of them worked.

Keith

On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> Casey Bisson wrote:
> > 
> > Jason Laws wrote:
> > > I have installed NetBDS on an old Mac LCII and believe I have followed
> > > the instructions correctly.   It doesn't work!   What have I done
> > > wrong??   The following describes my machine, what I have done and the
> > > screen from boot time
> > [stuff cut]
> > 
> > > Can you please help me with this.   'mrg: setup_egret: done.' was the
> > > last line of output I received.
> > > 
> > > Jason Laws
> > 
> > I think the answer you'd receive from some of the more experienced
> > members of the list is:
> > The NetBSD 1.2.1 feature-set was completed without support for the LC
> > series. Support was added soon after, so check out the -current kernels
> > and keep trying.
> > 
> > An LCII, however, may not give very satisfying performance, as it is a
> > 16mhz machine using only half of its bus-width (16bits).
> 
> Actually, 1.2.1 _did_ support the LCII and LCIII, or at least they were
> supposed to do so.  That's about the only mac68k-specific difference
> between 1.2 and 1.2.1.
> 
> However, the problems seen here are with the adb support.  Either the
> user was moving the mouse or typing on the keyboard when he booted, or
> else there is simply a problem with adb support on that machine.  Do you
> have any unusual ADB hardware?
> 
> I'd try a much more recent -current kernel if the above doesn't work.
> John Wittkowski's latest HWDIRECT? kernel should work just fine on the
> LCII, as should any kernel compiled w/o 'options MRG_ADB' (there are
> several on ftp.netbsd.org in the kernels directory, check the README for
> which ones).
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Later.> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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