On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Greg Earle wrote:

> Well, just for fun I left the 2 DIMMs installed as-is and got this:
> 
> >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.1
> >> (tsubai@kanea, Tue Jul 14 20:48:02 JST 1998)
> bad partition number, using 0open ide0/@0:6,mach_kernel/netbsd: Input/output \
> error
> Boot:

It did this even when you said "boot fd:0"?? Weird.

> [I suspect this is because Rhapsody diddled the Open Firmware "boot-file"
>  variable ... it also changed "boot-device" from "/APPL,ROM" to "ide0/@0:0"
>  and "load-base" from "4000" to "600000", and it enabled the nvramrc ... ]
> 
> So I then typed "netbsd" and it returned
> 
> Boot: netbsd
> no active packageBooting fd/netbsd
> 2660384@0x100000+140700@0x389820	[Screen switched to white-on-black now]
>  start=0x1000000
> 
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998
>     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> 
> NetBSD 1.3F (FLOPPY) #1: Wed Jul 15 13:04:23 JST 1998
>     tsubai@kanea:/c/0711/src/sys/arch/macpppc/compile/FLOPPY
> CPU: Version 8 (Revision 202)
> real mem = 167772160
> avail mem = 156680192
> using 800 buffers containing 3276800 bytes of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu at mainbus0
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
> pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
> pchb0: vendor 0x1057 product 0x0002 (rev. 0x40)
> obio0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: addr 0xf3000000
> mesh at obio0 offset 0x10000 not configured
> bmac at obio0 offset 0x11000 not configured
> zsc0 at obio0 offset 0x13000: irq 15,16
> zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0
> zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
> davbus at obio0 offset 0x14000 not configured
> swim3 at obio0 offset 0x15000 not configured
> nvram0 at obio0 offset 0x60000
> ide at obio0 offset 0x20000 not configured
> ide at obio0 offset 0x21000 not configured
> adb0 at obio0 offset 0x16000 irq 18
> adb: extended keyboard at 2
> adb: extended mouse <@200> 1-button 200 dpi mouse at 3
> grfati0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0
> grf0 at grfati0
> ite0 at grf0
> md0: internal 1536K image area
> boot device: <unknown>
> root on md0a dumps on md0b
> WARNING: clock gained 9 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!

Mine gained 8 days. ;-)

> root file system type: ffs
> # halt
> syncing disks... done
> halted
> 
> EXIT called ok
> 0 > ok
> 0 > 
> 
> TSUBAI YOU ARE A GOD!!!!!   hehe.  :-)
> 
> So much for the "Won't boot with 160 Mb installed" problem, eh?

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!! So why won't mine work? Maybe I need to just buy more
RAM. :-)

> (What does the "no active package" that came out right after "Boot: " mean?)

packages in Open Firmware are sets of routines to help out w/ stuff. Like
read iso-9660 file systems, mac file systems, FAT file systems, etc.. I
think the error means that the interpreter wanted to pass "netbsd" to a
package which would figure out what to do, but you didn't tell it which
one and there was no default.

> The keyboard works, the console-on-Apple-monitor works, wow I'm stoked!!!  :-)
> 
> I don't really want to touch my existing 4 Gb IDE disk setup yet (I know I
> can't anyway, just saying ... ), so ... Ethernet.  I have a big slice of a
> 4 Gb Barracuda on this SPARCstation that would love to host an NFS root
> partition & userland ... but don't know much about the built-in Ethernet on
> the G3.  A working built-in Ethernet driver that would allow me to try running
> diskless would be just great!

I don't know of any work going on for the bmac ethernet controller. But
any PCI ethernet controller which works on NetBSD should work on macppc if
it's compiled into the kernel. I hope. :-)

Take care,

Bill