Hey all.
So, I have a 68040 Cube with printer and MegaPixel display that I've been holding on to for a while. I decided to bring it into the office as a conversation piece.
I tried to power it up today and it didn't boot (although it used to). The system powers up and passes self test, then the HD starts spinning up (it still does, which is amazing), and the sytem recognizes it's volume name even. After about 60 seconds, I get a panic:
panic: (Cpu 0) od: empty q
Not sure if this is HD-related or if I need to re-seat everything (which is what I'll try tomorrow first thing). Anyone familiar with that panic message? Any tips?
That aside for a moment...what I'd really like to know is if I want to put a newer HD in there, and re-install the OS, how would I do it? I have the original optical disk of NeXTSTEP 3.x, however the OD is dead (as far as I can tell).
Not having any other NeXT peripherals, I'm wondering what options I have to install the OS onto a HD..either inside the Cube or outside of it. I have at my disposal a Sun Ultra1, multiple Macs, an external SCSI enclosure or two, an original Apple CDROM 300i (which, since is SCSI I thought might prove useful).
So what's my best bet on installing NeXTSTEP onto a new HD? Is the software available anywhere in image form? If so, is it net-bootable? I can set up a TFTP server, but not sure that'd work.
Thanks for the input!
AaplMike
If it turns out to be the HD, I'd suggest purchasing a CDROM of 3.3 and using the SCSI CDROM drive that you have.
Aha! I lucked out...
I noticed the panic happened when the boot loader was checking/trying to read from my broken optical disk.
I unplugged the OD and voila...boot worked fine. :)