Miles,

I was having the same problem. I have made a marginal improvement by
compiling a 1.5.1 kernel, but I do not have a ramdisk image to poke
into the kernel with mdsetimage, so I'm still stuck. I tried to use
'boot.fs' from the the NetBSD/macppc CD-ROM as my ramdisk, but that made
the kernel barf. I've also tried cross-compiling all of NetBSD/macppc
on my NetBSD/i386 box at work, to no avail: Internal compiler error.

If you have an NetBSD/macppc already operating on a different computer
than your Cube, then your best bet is probably to create a kernel,
with ramdisk, from 1.5.1 sources *there*, and then burn it to a CD-ROM.
I will give you more detailed instructions, or point you at instructions
on the Web, just let me know. I need the kernel just as badly as you do.

Dave

miles wrote:
> I'm not having any luck installing 1.5 on my cube.  I can boot from the
> cd with a "boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc" (nothing else works),
> but it then hangs after displaying the kernel banner message.  It does
> print an error message with "usb-kbd-ihandle" in the text at the bottom
> of the screen.  The other strange thing is that it reports:
>     "total memory = 0"
> 	"avail memory = 117 M"
> 
> Total memory should be > 0, right?  I thought that it might be having
> trouble with attached usb devices, but I get the same result with only
> a keyboard attached.
> 
> --
> miles

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