Re: A7000+ boot problem

George Harvey <[email protected]> Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:50:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.acorn32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 21:53:05 +0100
George Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've just upgraded my A7000 to an A7000+ with a motherboard swap.
> Previously, I was booting NetBSD 2.0.2 using !BtNetBSD and it worked
> fine. Now, it loads the kernel then hangs after 'bye bye from Risc
> OS!'. I tried Boot32 instead and that hangs in the same place. Any
> suggestions?
> 
> System is A7000+ with 8MB on the motherboard and a 16MB SIMM.

I finally got back round to looking at this and found a work-round.
I downloaded BtNetBSD from the 1.6.2 distribution and that works fine
with both 1.6.2 and 2.0.2 kernels.

Regards,
George