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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!westlake From: westlake@netcom.com (Jim Westlake) Subject: MacBSD - Install Problems Message-ID: <westlakeCz70uB.Krv@netcom.com> Keywords: MacBSD install Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 06:32:35 GMT Lines: 24 I've been trying to install MacBSD with no success... Hardware: Mac IIsi - 17MB Mem - 170MB Internal + 540MB External Created AUX partition (60MB Root) on external drive (Have another AUX partition, but not used/mounted at install time). Make FS & install seem to go well, but at boot time, it loads MacBSD, then changes to full screen & prints message "Preserving 73360 bytes netbsd symbol table", then the screen gets overwritten (from the bottom - moving upward) by 80 vertical stripes consisting of a bluish line several more-or-less pink lines, and a bit of white; the pattern then repeats itself 80 times horizontally. When the screen is full, all activity ceases - no response to anything but a reset.. I tried reinstalling only base10+etc10+netbsd10 - no change. I've also tried booting with extensions off, telling the booter to use only 9 Meg memory, etc. Nothing seems to change the symptoms. Looking at the BSD partition with the mini-shell, all seems in order; key files and directories seem to all be there; /dev/ looks reasonable. All help will be greatly appreciated. Jim Westlake westlake@netcom.com