On Nov 15, 2004, at 4:38 PM, Stefan Edwards wrote:

> g'day,
>  I have a BondiBlue that a customer wanted to get rid of for a shiny 
> new
> POS dell system. I was short of a workstation at the time, so I took 
> it.
> NetBSD & OpenDarwin both have the similar trouble on the machine... 
> They
> sound like they are loading fine, but the screen is completely black 
> for
> NetBSD & Snow Crash-looking with OpenDarwin. Any Ideas about this?

Insert the line

" output" screen

in your Openfirmware command stream before the boot command.

-bob