RE: me too: invalid memory access early in boot

[Jay K <jay.krell%cornell.edu@localhost>]

It seems to be a long standing problem.
I can try another build next week. I'm away.
I tried three machines and it happened consistently on two of them.
Ultimately though I'm afraid the partitioning was a huge problem.

You probably get a lot of similar complaining.

But I've installed Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, Irix, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, NT, 
all multiple times,
multiple machines, multiple architectures, (ok, Irix only on MIPS, HP-UX only 
on HPPA and
maybe only once on one machine).
NetBSD on ppc seems to be particularly problematic.
Granted, FreeBSD/ppc does too but they say so.
The OpenBSD install succeeded.


I fiddled with NetBSD/ppc for hours trying to get partioning to work
and eventually gave up. I think I was able to make it install, but not boot.
The best/easiest story for booting would seem to be MBR partitioning,
similar to OpenBSD.
I don't need to share with MacOS/X.
(I'd also like just want / label/partition, easy enough in all my other 
installs...)

 - Jay


> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:31:26 -0700
> Subject: Re: me too: invalid memory access early in boot
> From: acruhl%gmail.com@localhost
> To: jay.krell%cornell.edu@localhost
> CC: port-macppc%netbsd.org@localhost
> 
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Jay K <jay.krell%cornell.edu@localhost> wrote:
> > NetBSD 5.0.1 macppc
> >
> > boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf
> > open /netbsd: no such file or directory
> > open /netbsd.gz: no such file or directory
> > 4860575+....
> >  start=9x00...
> >
> > invalid memory access at %srr0: 0000003a  %srr1: 00003a00
> >
> > and drops back to OpenFirmware prompt
> >
> >
> > Runs Mac OSX ok.
> > OpenBSD at least gets further..still installing.
> > (They show up in the GUI multiboot too, nice)
> >
> >
> > Apple Powerbook 3,3 4.5.3f2 BootROM built on 10/25/02
> >
> > 15" 1GHz PowerBook G4 I think "Titanium"
> >
> > I think 768MB RAM -- wierd amount?
> 
> 768 megs is not weird, it's just probably 512 + 256 in some combination