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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD on HP 9000/400 ??
Date: 7 Dec 1994 15:14:17 GMT
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Patrick Thomas (psthomas@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: numbers excape me)... and somebody, somewhere told me that it'd work,

Yes, it does.  On 433's and 425's...

: try to boot in Domain/OS mode, it'll gripe about not being able to read

It won't work in Domain/OS mode for several reasons. One of which is the
keyboard, the second is the bootblocks.  It needs to be in HP mode.

: the dd). In HP mode, it seems to stick at the test for bitmapped
: video. Can anybody offer a suggestion or two about what I'm doing

Err, what kind of 4xx is this? Is it a 425dl? There was talk of there being
no code for that display hardware... I know that 't's and 's's work fine
though.

What release are you using? 1.0?

Anyhow; your best bet for help is the port-hp300@mail.netbsd.org 
mailing list.  I don't know how many of us bother to read these newsgroups
anymore. I only skim through once a week.

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