On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Michael Thompson wrote:

> I gave up on booting from disk and setup diskless boot from a NetBSD
> server. Now it says:
>
> 0 > boot enet file: 192.168.0.68,ofwboot.xcfloading XCOFF
> tsize=C1C0 dsize=1500 bsize=1608 entry=600000
> SECTIONS:
> .text    00600000 00600000 0000C1C0 000000E0
> .data    0060D000 0060D000 00001500 0000C2A0
> .bss     0060E500 0060E500 00001608 00000000
> loading .text, done..
> loading .dataCLAIM failed
>  ok
>
> Any more ideas?
>
> >I am new to Mac's and could use a little help.
> >
> >I was given a 8600/200 without a hard drive and installed a 1GB Seagate
> >drive. I downloaded the NetBSD-macppc CDROM ISO image and made an install
> >CDROM. I don't have access to a Mac so I used rawrite to make a boot
> >diskette from the boot.fs file.
> >
> >I connected my PC to the Mac's modem port, booted into Open Firmware,
> >booted from the floppy, and installed NetBSD on the hard drive. I set the
> >following in OpenFirmware:
> >
> >input-device    kbd
> >output-device   /chaos/control
> >auto-boot?      false
> >boot-device     scsi-int/sd@0:0
> >boot-file       netbsd
> >load-base       600000

When netbooting, load-base has to be set to an INCORRECT value. Henry's
suggestion of 500000 works, and I usually use 640000.

Yes, this is weird.

Take care,

Bill