Subject: Re: G4/450 Boot
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
From: Jason M Varner <jv09177@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/06/2000 12:12:08
Dan Winship wrote:

> Well, once you manage to get OF to boot a kernel, it's not likely to
> actually work...
>
> -- Dan

Well, it booted, but it didn't get far...

(using netbsd-GENERIC_MD, 8/11/99)

cpu version c (Revision 207)
real mem = 402653184
avail mem = 380219392
using 800 buffers containing 3276800 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0
trap type 200 at 272764
stopped in  at 0x234a58: lwz r0, r1, 0x14
db> _

To my (admittedly untrained) eyes, it looks like it's breaking when it
tries to talk to the PCI controller. Could this be a bus timing issue,
perhaps?

Also, does anyone know the boot sequence step-by-step (that is, what the
kernel looks for when)? This might help me figure out what is happening.

Thanks in advance.

Jason