Installing 8.0 on a Powerbook6,8

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

Hey folks --

I have a PowerBook G4 (PowerBook6,8) that I'm trying to install NetBSD on.  The OS X installation on it is toast, and so I have nothing I care to preserve.  It also means I don't have any native tools, but if I absolutely have to, I can scavenge a FW 400<->800 cable and put it into Target Disk Mode and fiddle around with partitions from my iMac.

So, I burned a NetBSD 8 macppc installation CD, and booted it thus:

0 > boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc

...OFW proceeds to load the boot loader, and the boot loader runs and loads the kernel... BUT, the kernel fails to start.  First attempt yielded a decrementer exception, and the second attempt yielded invalid memory access.

Booting the ELF version of ofwboot fails with "unrecognized Client Program format".

Any suggestions?

-- thorpej