Re: A3000 booting NetBSD :-(

From: Jerry Heyman (jerry_at_fourwinds.cx)
Date: 11/01/03

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    Pawel Chwalowski wrote:

    > Hello!
    >
    > Jerry Heyman <jerry@fourwinds.cx> wrote in message
    > news:<drhib.6523$BI4.4518@bignews6.bellsouth.net>...
    >
    >> I hold down the mouse keys to get the boot menu
    >> I select the partition where I've copied the netbsd kernel
    >
    > Did you transfer miniroot.fs correctly?

    As far a I can tell. I followed the instructions and still
    at least it knows to do the mini-boot

    >> machine resets itself and starts to boot netbsd
    >> I get:
    >>
    >> boot [netbsd -ASn2]:
    >>
    >> I hit enter letting it take the defaults, it shows that
    >> its reading the kernel and getting set up - then it says
    >> that its going to load in freemem at 4000000 and the screen
    >> goes grey with the edges of the screen having contracted into
    >> a smaller screen size.
    >
    > Try with:
    >
    > netbsd -I ff -b -Sn2
    > (without -A option because you don't have AGA chips)

    Tried that. Get a big grey screen momentarily before it reverts
    back to the smaller screen.

    >> Any Amiga gurus out there that might have a pointer (or two)?
    >
    > Look at http://www.netbsd.org/MailingLists/#port-amiga

    Thanks - will check it out. BTW, I mispoke, I'm using
    netbsd 1.6 - not 1.6.1 as I previously posted.

    > Regards,
    > PCh

    jerry 

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