840av
64MB Ram (or so, I dont have the number in front of me)
2MB VRAM
jackhammer scsi
asante 10 MBit/s network card
I'm having a really hard time getting my 840av to boot into
netbsd. I'm
using 3.0.1 and the tools on the mac68k iso. I believe that
I've had it boot
3 times, but it seems completely random. IE I have no idea
what the
conditions were like when NetBSD successfully booted. I've
tried zapping the
pram, starting without extentions, system 7.5.5, 7.5.3, and
maybe a couple
other things.
I managed to boot into NetBSD to install all the netbsd
packages onto a
partition on a Quantum Atlas V. Unfortunately, the boot
application was
unable to find the partition even if I gave it the
partition's name. So I
decided to reformat the drive, this time using apple's
utility and mkfs
instead of the installation kernel's sysinstall utility.
But since doing
this I have yet to again boot into netbsd.
The booter completes the following and then nothing happens.
The mouse still
works, and I see the Mac interface in B&W. It always
completes this process,
but almost never manages to go any farther. When it has gone
farther it was
to successfully load the kernel and start the installer
application. The
following log was created when trying to boot one of the
installation
kernels.
Booting...
transparent = 0
32 bit ELF format
=0x452794
kVec[MARK_START]=0x0
kVec[MARK_ENTRY]=0x2e00
kVec[MARK_NSYM] =0x1
kVec[MARK_SYM] =0x3f4a34
kVec[MARK_END] =0x452794
kVec[MARK_MAX] =0x0
PageSize = 8192, Start 0, entry 11776, NSym 1, Sym 4147764,
End 4532116
Allocated 4794260 bytes.
32 bit ELF format
1376100+2691480+71988 [206+258576+124835]=0x452794
kVec[MARK_START]=0xbda000
kVec[MARK_ENTRY]=0x2e00
kVec[MARK_NSYM] =0x1
kVec[MARK_SYM] =0xfcea34
kVec[MARK_END] =0x102c794
kVec[MARK_MAX] =0x0
symspace=16575968(0xfcede0),symlen=258576(0x3f210),strings=1
6834544(0x100dff
0),lenstrings=124835(0x1e7a3)
_end=4143304(0x3f38c8)
Set _boothowto to 0.
start address = 0x2e00.
total kernel buffer space used = 4536244 (0x4537b4).
The warm and fuzzy copycode() is at 0x032f7394 for 0x04c
harry() is at 0x1067c00
from = 0x00bda000, to = 0x00000000, len = 1193984, entry =
0x00002e00
Attempting to kill all running programs...
Found process Finder
Changing Monitor settings...
Bye-bye...
So I sez to him... The real way
that it should be done is to...
Serial console flags = 0
Stripping video addr 0x50100700 'cause pmVersion = 0, not
4.
Set _mac68k_vrsrc_cnt to 0.
Set _mac68k_vrsrc_vec to {0x8442 0x8276 0x1d7 0xb900 0x3e9f
0xac28 }.
...any ideas about how I can consistantly boot into NetBSD?
At this point,
I'd be happy with even a 1 in 2 success rate. Oh and one
more potentially
interesting fact - macos is unable to shut down or reboot my
840av. It's
very bizarre. 100% of the time, if I want to reboot, I have
to use
apple-control-power. If I want to shut down, I have to pull
the power cord.
On the other hand, under NetBSd, shutdown -h now worked
perfectly.
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