On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Rich Simpson wrote:

> I was  trying to compile a kernel for my powerbook that has the 
> "options OFB_ENABLE_CACHE" enabled, hoever doing so makes the resulting 
> kernel (which compiles without errors) crash on boot, says it can not 
> find init.
> 
> I just copied the config for GENERIC and uncomented that one line. As a 
> test I compiled a kernel from GENERIC and that works fine, tho the 
> POWERMAC config does not at all (fails very early in boot) what is the 
> recomended way to get faster console text, as it is slower then my old 
> sparc classic I use as my mail server...
> 
> If I can give you further info that will help diagnose this problem, 
> let me know.
> 
> -Rich

Browse the archives. There is a patch for this problem. 1.6.1 netbsd's 
kernel has a bug in its ofb.c which causes that behaviour.



Juha