Re: first boot attempt

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 09:16:00PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> The loader crashed.

Hmmm - I saw something about gcc 4.8 trouble earlier - could it be related?

> What kind of hardware is this?

A G5 of some sort:

model                   PowerMac7,3
0 > ls cpus 
ff899ee8: /PowerPC,G5@0   
...


> If you can get your kernel smaller than about 4MB then most OF can load
> it directly, without ofwboot.xcf.

I tried a gzipped netbsd-INSTALL.gz, but maybe it needs to be uncompressed
as I got a

Transfer FILE: netbsd \
TFTP LOAD TimeOutload-size=400 adler32=9a72fcda 
unrecognized Client Program format

otherwise getting under 4MB seems to be tricky... Just tried the
"# Lean and mean config file for the POWERMAC G5" POWERMAC_G5 which
weighs in at

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5.6M Feb  6 12:51 netbsd

and

Transfer FILE: netbsd /
TFTP LOAD TimeOutload-size=10200 adler32=8f45da07 

Loading ELF

Decrementer exception at   %SRR0: 00000000.00115264   %SRR1: 10000000.00083030 
 ok


Cheers,

Patrick