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Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III



On 11/10/2013 07:50 PM, Patrick McCarthy wrote:
> Inspired by Scott ("Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized") I
> pulled my LC III out of the closet and tried to follow along to get up
> to date. I untarred Thorsten's filesystem to /, got the initrd from
> http://zigo.mirbsd.org:8080/t/initrd.img-3.10-2-m68k and the kernel from
> http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/vmlinux-3.10-2-m68k.gz, and since Penguin
> said it didn't have enough memory (I have 36mb total) I put the files on
> disk and booted an emile floppy which was able to load. The boot hung
> early, however, and sat here for over an hour:
> 
> http://imgur.com/sUirUFC

Cool, it's a start, at least ;). The tux logo is nice!

> I suspect something about the disk controller, but it seems to early in
> the boot process for that. Any idea what it's choking on?

Or it might be an issue with the console driver. Do you see any hard
disk activity on the HDD LED or does the LC not have one?

Maybe it's booting fine but just no further console output. Maybe
the serial console might help.

Adrian

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