Hi,

Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com> wrote:

Bob> I just tried the 1999/12/04 set on my 400Mhz B&W G3
Bob> without much success.

Bob> The GENERIC_MD installation kernel bombs out very early
Bob> in the boot cycle and OF regains control and brings up
Bob> MacOS.  As near as I could tell it looks like this
Bob> happens right after a "quiesce" operation.

Please try 19991023 version of GENERIC_MD.  It booted on
iMac for me.

Bob> The kernel in the kern.tgz file will boot on my system,
Bob> but generates some "interrupt while polling" errors on
Bob> the USB whenever I enter anything on the keyboard.

Did you press the keys other than shift first?

Bob> When the system finally finishes booting and puts up
Bob> the login prompt the USB keyboard is dead, although I
Bob> suspect an ADB keyboard would work at that point.  This
Bob> is similar to what I was seeing a few weeks ago on -
Bob> current code.

When USB keyboard hung, I pulled and reconnected the cable
then press the shift key several times and I was able to use
the keyboard.

Bob> The results are looking promising, but the USB and OF
Bob> booting problems still seem to prevent my system from
Bob> running with this snapshot.  I haven't tried the 10/23
Bob> snapshot yet.

USB problem are in 19991023 binary sets.  Workaround above
did for me.  I don't have USB model myself (I had an iMac on
lone), so anyone who have them will help further...

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