Subject: Re: grey screen on mini boot
To: None <joel@carnat.net>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/21/2007 11:05:21
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Hello,

On Oct 21, 2007, at 10:37, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> For a few months, my mini was running 4.0_BETA2.
> Because it was a bit noisy and some other machines using it's services
> seemed a bit crappy, I decided to poweroff/sleep 30/poweron it.
>
> While I was there, I upgraded it to 4.0_RC3.
>
> When I power the mini on, I get a lightgrey screen.
> Then nothing happens at all.
> If I go to the OBF at boot (using the keyboard sentense), I can simply
> type "boot" and NetBSD boots fine.
>
> The mini has NetBSD only installed.
> ofwboot.xcf is installed on an HFS partition at the beginning of the
> disk.
>
> Any thoughts ?

Looks like another instance of the bad old OF3-doesn't-setup-output  
problem. Hacks for nvramrc have been posted a couple times here.

have fun
Michael
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