Re: first boot attempt

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 13:11:28 +0000
Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:

> 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   
> ...

Hmm, that type hasn't been tried in a while, the last few bits of G5
support were done on 10,2s. The CPUs themselves shouldn't be that
different though.
I'm not sure this ever worked right on G5 anyway, when I was messing
with it I always had to netboot my test kernels directly.

> > 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

OF doesn't support gzipped binaries IIRC.

> 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

May need to be built with -Os. Unfortunately binaries seem to get
bigger with every new compiler version.

have fun
Michael