Re: help needed with unsupported ofppc machine

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On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:31:21 +0100, Abstract-Mage-Dev wrote:

> Hi
> 
> quick info at the start this is the first time ive used a mailing list
> so i might make errors
> 
> so to the actuall topic: i have gotten ahold of an ibm intellistation
> power 185. it seems to be working fine it however does not have a
> working os installed.
> thus i wanted to see wether netbsd works. it is not on the list of
> supported device's so i tried this port since it is the most promising
> one.
> it managed to load the kernel and go to some point of the boot process
> but just ended up looping at a point(image of that in the attachments)
> 
> i dont know if there is any interest of supporting this machine but it
> would be nice and i would be willing to try to get you as much debug
> info as i can.
> 
> Greetings

Howdy,
Interesting machine you have, they seem to be rare:
http://www.ibmfiles.com/pages/intellipower185.htm
I don't see an attachment, but if you can post a link to it somewhere 
else, it would probably help since I'm not sure if attachments work with 
the mailing list. Another option might be to boot it with a serial 
connection for output, so you can just copy and paste the text instead of 
an image.