Subject: Re: Beige G3 - Unable to boot install
To: Ben Jansen <netbsd@kristamin.com>
From: Christopher Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/11/2002 20:09:23
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Ben Jansen wrote:
> Which OF patch? The only one I see mentioned is one for OF 1.05.
It should be installed to OpenFirmware from within MacOS when you
click Power User, then save.
> > Set correct *-base OF values. With the installed OF patches you have
> > to specify 'boot-device' and 'boot-file' explicitly and finally type
> > '0 bootr' as boot command, like:
>
> Hmmm, I tried a variation on this, like so:
>
> setenv boot-device ide0/disk@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1
> setenv boot-file NETBSD.MACPPC;1
> reset-all
> 0 bootr
You might have better luck using ide0/disk@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1 and
leaving boot-file blank or using ide0/@0:0 and use boot-file OFWBOOT.XCF;1
> It displays:
>
> loader: loading XCOFF
> tsize=cbc0 dsize=14a8 bsize=2670 entry=640000
> SECTIONS:
> .text 00640000 00640000 0000cbc0 000000e0
> .data 0064d000 0064d000 000014a8 0000cca0
> .bss 0064e4a8 0064e4a8 00002670 00000000
> loading .text, done..
> loading .data, done..
> clearing .bss, done..
>
> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00300 at %SRR0: 00640018 %SRR1: 00003070
Hmm, that's not getting very far, but better than claim failed.