Re: Quadra 605 fails to boot snapshot

Andrew Daugherity <[email protected]> wrote:

> Much like Andersen Silva reported to this list in February, I have a
> Quadra 605, upgraded with a full 68040 CPU (*with* FPU), and it fails
> to boot the OpenBSD kernel (3.6-GENERIC), printing exactly the same
> message "[ using 407118 bytes of bsd a.out symbol table ] " and then
> hanging.  Pressing Cmd-Power (which generates an NMI, and drops to the
> debugger in MacOS and NetBSD) does nothing whatsoever (which I suppose
> makes sense, as the kernel hasn't started yet).  Cmd-Ctrl-Power (the
> 3-finger salute) does a soft reset as expected -- I don't know if that
> key combination can even be trapped.
> 
> The bsd.rd kernel from the -current snapshot (3/26/05) fails exactly
> the same way, aside from printing a different number of bytes.
> 
> It seems no one ever posted a follow-up to that thread about trying a
> -current snapshot, so I am posting this message.  My Q605 has just
> 36MB RAM and is running Mac OS 7.6.1, but the error appears to be the
> same.  Incidentally, NetBSD-2.0 runs just fine on this machine; I can
> provided a dmesg output from NetBSD if requested (obviously there is
> no dmesg output to be gathered from OpenBSD, as it halts after that
> one line).
> 

So it was broken since like who knows and noone has the ressources to fix
it. Nick said it all in his mail to misc@:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111375235614249&w=2

It might get fixed someday, but don't hold your breath.
Anyway, thanks for your report, i will update the documentation soon.