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X68000 NetBSD Boot - Xellent30

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Upon booting into NetBSD from the X68000 (pre-X68000 XVI units), they must be first loaded with the custom firmware in the SRAM, Xellent30+SxSI+Omake driver.
Once this is done, a SCSI disk drive (HDD or AztecMonster with compact flash or microdrive) can be booted with the SCSI-1 expansion card.

The Xellent30 68030 CPU accelerator card must have the two left jumper switches in the "up" position upon bootup using a NetBSD boot diskette.
After the diskette boots into the bootloader, run the command:  boot sd1a:netbsd

"sd1a" can have the number replaced by the SCSI disk's assigned number from 0 to 7; I had my disk on the assigned number 1, hence sd1a being used.
Press "Enter" on the keyboard, and once the OS starts to load in the bootloader, move the two left jumper switches to the "down" position.

This will allow the custom Omake firmware drivers to be loaded properly into memory and will allow NetBSD to properly boot.
If this isn't done, NetBSD will only partially boot, and will halt at the initial hardware detection screen.

Happy retrocomputing! ^_^
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