Subject: Re: 8600/200 won't boot. revised
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/11/2001 14:46:31
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 12:12 PM -0800 12/11/01, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Michael Thompson wrote:
> >
> >>  Can the net boot loader be changed so that a load-base of 600000 will work?
> >
> >Actually what would be more reasonable would be for the non-net loaders to
> >use the load-base area as scratch, and then load the files where they need
> >to go. :-)
>
> Is that the right distinction?  600000 doesn't work for loading from
> an MS-DOS floppy either.  Perhaps 600000 only works for the special
> case of the boot media that use our bootxx?

Ahhh.... That's probably it.

The fs and net ones are fine, but the bootx one isn't. Strange, as the
partition info used for the bootx partition includes a load address

Take care,

Bill