on 3/4/01 2:37 PM, Henry B. Hotz at hotz@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:

> At 5:03 PM -1000 3/3/01, Dave Low wrote:
>> My Actual experience with trying the above and something Todd wrote:
>> 
>> 0> boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf <return>  (then) /load-size=d4c4 adler32=1956c83a
>> 
>> loading XCOFF
>> 
>> tsize=bf00 dsize=14e4 bsize=1608 entry=600000
>> 
>> .text  00600000 00600000 0000bf00 000000e0
>> .data  0060c000 0060c000 000014e4 0000bfe0
>> .bss   0060d4e8 0060d4e8 00001608 00000000
>> loading .text, done..
>> loading .data, done..
>>>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
>>>> (mat@duel.local, Thu Nov 16 17:26:57 PST 2000)
>> open: no such file or directory
>> open /pci@f2000000/mac-io17/ata-4@1f000/disk@1:0/netbsd: no such file or
>> directory
>> 
>> Boot:
> 
> Try non-zero partition numbers.  Hmmm. No ofwboot won't allow that will it?
> 
> Actually what happens if you just try booting the kernel directly?
> That isn't reliable, but it might work.  In that case you would
> probably need to figure out what the real partition number is.  It'll
> be something like 4 or greater.
> 
> 
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> h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu
===============  ================  =================
Thanks to Makoto Fujiwara, I got as far as I have  ever got. He said:
Try
0> boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc

What I got from that was:

              console keyboad type: USB
              Copyright (c) 1996,1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
                 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc  All rights reserved.
              Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 All rights reserved

              NetBSD 1.5 (INSTALL) #0: Thu Nov 16 18:12:29 PST 2000
                  matt@duel.local:/u1/kobj/INSTALL
              CPU: 7400 (Revision 209)'
              total memory = 0
              available memory = 56064 KB
              using 16 buffers containing 0 of memory

while at the bottom of the screen

method <'usb-kbd-ihandle'> not found; ihandle=ffbcb580 phandle=ff8ec598



I  have my keyboard hooked to the back of my monitor, so I moved it to the
cube it self.  Same exact message.

Dave Low
supermac@hawaii.rr.com