On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Michael Wolfson wrote:

> I was just wondering.  Is there any reason to *not* include the following
> command in the standard installation procedure for OF 1.0.5 machines?

No. Please do it. :-)

> setenv real-base F00000
> 
> Of the latest snapshot kernels I tried, only the ones with a ramdisk
> actually boot with the default real-base (-1) set.  The kernels that fail
> do so while ofwboot.xcf is loading them.
> 
> This is with the following ofwboot.xcf (version 1.2, load-base 600000):
> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/20000620-1.5/installation/
> ofwboot.xcf>
> 
> The kernels which work with real-base -1 are:
> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2/macppc/installation/floppy/bo
> ot.fs>
> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/20000620-1.5/installation/
> netbsd.ram.gz>
> <ftp://nandra.iri.co.jp/pub/NetBSD/macppc/netbsd.hfsboot>
> 
> The kernels that only work with real-base F00000 are:
> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2/macppc/binary/sets/kern.tgz>
> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/20000620-1.5/binary/kernel
> /netbsd.GENERIC.gz>
> 
> AFAICT, setting the real-base does not cause any problems.  To set it back
> to the original real-base, run:
> set-default real-base
> 
> Comments?
> 
>   -- MW
> 
>