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From: urbach@fas.harvard.edu (Jonathan Urbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with MacBSD booting
Date: 29 Mar 1996 05:04:05 GMT
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Jonathan Urbach (urbach@fas.harvard.edu) wrote:
: Hey all, I hate to be the stereotypical newbie, but I'm having problems 
: booting MacBSD on my SE/30 I don't have any weird cards in it, although I 
: did install a new Maxtor Harddrive. I boot a minimal System 7.1 with Mode32 
: and 32 bit addressing turned on. Here's what happens: Everything seems ok at 
: first, then the boot pauses on:

: PRAM:0x3159380b, macos_boottime:0x315937fe

: At which point, I simply hit return and the thing continues to boot, then 
: finally I end up in an infinite repeating loop of:

Actually there's a little more to the message:

: db>kernal:illegal instruction trap
: caught exception in ddb
trap type=2, code=0, v=0

: That goes on ad infinitum. Any advice for this newbie?

: Jonathan
: urbach@fas.harvard.edu