Augey Mikus <mikus@shell.flinet.com> wrote:

>on at least my mac Quadra 605, the booter finishes and attempts to load
>NetBSD, it prints the first line win loading the kernel (something about
>NetBSD symbol table) then locks up.
>
>has anyone experienced this problem?

As I recall the Q605 and one of the LCs use the same motherboard but use 
different parts of the Mac ROM.  The Gestalt IDs are the same so it 
wasn't possible to determine which set of ROM routines to use in NetBSD 
for the MRG Kernels.  So if you're trying to boot a GENERIC or GENERICSBC 
Kernel I'd suggest trying a HWDIRECT one instead. (This is one of the 
main reasons the MRG ROM solution was never going to work across the 
entire 68K family for us.)  As best I can remember the MRG routines are 
currently defaulted to the LC version, not the Q605.

Of course I could be wrong as this is all from memory that I have of 
working on this problem some time ago.

-bob