Subject: Installing 1.5 on mac G4 AGP getting me nuts !
To: NetBSD MacPPC Mailing List <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Samuel Hornus <Samuel.Hornus@crans.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/13/2001 19:50:31
I already sent this message to the list but it seems it didn't get
his glorious destination... so here it is again.

To be fast :
- Macintosh G4 AGP.
No ffs filesystem on it, just some HFS+ and some A/UX waiting for 
NetBSD...
launching ofwboot.elf or ofwboot.xcf from ZIP or HD or CD is running 
perfectly.
but none of these is able to load the 'netbsd.ram.gz' (of NetBSD 1.5 
installation),
compressed or not.

running	:	boot zip:ofwboot.(elf/xcf) netbsd[.ram[.gz]]       (under 
openfirmware)
doesn't work (error 'can't find file/folder', whereas the is on the disk 
just near ofwboot.(xcf/elf))

The strange thing is that :

running	:	boot zip:netbsd.GENERIC	(under openfirmware (2.4))
runs perfectly ! (but fail to mount root file system, because it doesn't 
exists...)

any help to install 1.5 on my mac would be greatly appreciated... 
thanks !

--
Samuel Hornus.