Subject: Loaner macppc available in Atlanta?
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/04/2000 12:11:02
Does anyone on this list live in or relatively near Atlanta, GA, and have a
spare macppc with OFW 1.x or 2.x (but not 2.4)?  I'd like to borrow one for
about 3 days.  I have ADB keyboard and mouse on hand, as well as monitor,
for any machine using ADB or the Mac 15-pin monitor port.  I could even
bring an external scratch SCSI HD to do the debugging in-house if it's a
business that is touchy about the equipment.

Context:

Right now I'm trying to make one CD boot on all macppc's, and am already in
the final stages without even owning a macppc, by having other developers
burn and test the images.  There's one right now at:

    ftp://ftp.duh.org/pub/NetBSD/macppc-hybrid7.iso.gz

which is capable of booting on OFW 3 (and probably OFW 2.4), and loads the
bootblock on OFW 1.0.5 but fails with the dreaded `DEFAULT CATCH!' error.
It's modeled after the floppy boot and MacOS X CD boot methods.

I really need to work directly with an OFW 1 machine to finish debugging
this rapidly.  If you're nearby and have a machine to spare, this will help
make the CD distributions boot on all machines.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (tv@netbsd.org)