Re: ofwboot.xcf fails to load kernel from MS-DOS formated USB-memory(OpenFirmware 3)

[Adrian Christiansen <adrian.christiansen%gmail.com@localhost>]

I have now tested a number of combinations of filesystem sizes, FAT16
and FAT12, bootable and not bootable. Sizes between 2880KB and 128MB,
same error every time.
I only tried 2880KB with FAT12.

I got worried that the USB-memory itself was broken and tested with
another USB-memory, while it got the same errors, it did not crash
(look up), instead I got back to the boot: command line. It seems like
ofwboot can't read the kernel from the FAT16/12 partition on the
USB-memory. I also tried OpenBSD's ofwboot with bsd.rd (generic kernel
with ramdisk, like netbsd's generic md) and got the same errors,
although a lot more verbose and it told me that it can't read/find the
file.

It almost seems like OpenFirmware gives ofwboot a file-location which
it can't read. ofwboot can't list any kernels in that partition. I'm
really confused.

2011/9/25 Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>:
>> I'm clueless to what to try next or if this will work at all.
>
> AFAICT FAT implementation of OF is quite buggy.
>
> It might be worth to try FAT12/FAT16 with various partition size.
> http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-macppc/2009/11/24/msg000952.html
>
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> Izumi Tsutsui
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