At 10:57 PM +0200 9/15/02, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
>  >>>>> "Donald" == Donald Lee <donlee_ppc1@icompute.com> writes:
>
>     Donald> I have been assured that it can be done, and believe that
>     Donald> it is a question of setting the OF variables
>     Donald> "boot-command" and "boot-file" (I think I have the names
>     Donald> right...) correctly. If you read the old threads
>     Donald> carefully, it sounds like just typing in the commands for
>     Donald> booting in OF is not enough, you have to set the vars, and
>     Donald> then just type boot.
>
>With
>
>   boot-device ide1/@0:,\OFWBOOT.XCF;1
>   boot-file   ide1/@0:,NETBSD.;1
>
>and
>
>   0 bootr
>
>(I guess only available after SystemDisks OF-Patches) I came to (but
>only once after e reset!) with booting from cdrom (floppy doesn't work
>at all):
>
>   loader: loading XCOFF
>   tsize=cbb0 dsize=14a8 bsize=2670 entry=640000
>   SECTIONS:
>   .text    00640000 00640000 0000cbb0 000000e0
>   .data    0064d000 0064d000 000014a8 0000cc90
>   .bss     0064e4a8 0064e4a8 00002670 00000000
>   loading .text, done..
>   loading .data, done..
>   clearing .bss, done..
>
>   DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00300 at   %SRR0: 00640018   %SRR1: 00003070
>    ok
>
>I get the same result when setting up netbooting with
>
>  boot-device enet:,\ofwboot.xcf
>  boote-file  enet:,netbsd
>
>So, does ofwboot.xcf run successfully, now?
>
>But how and where to specify the kernel ('s path) correctly? ('DEFAULT
>CATCH...' means the kernel could not be loaded?)

That's a pretty generic error message.  An exception was thrown that 
did not have a handler defined.

I suggest you try a boot-file of "-a" so you can try typing in test 
cases until you get one that works.  Then you put your type in as 
boot-file.  Also if you get all the way to an ofwboot prompt you know 
that ofwboot loaded correctly (as it appears above).
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