Subject: Re: Install problems with Beige G3 (OFW 2.4)
To: Donald Lee <donlee_ppc@icompute.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/09/2002 15:21:26
At 8:09 AM -0600 2/8/02, Donald Lee wrote:
>At 10:30 AM -0800 2/7/02, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>>On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Eric Damien Berna wrote:
>>
>>>   I've been trying all sorts of other things.  I browsed through the
>>>   mailing list for possible solutions, and I found some suggestions for
>>>   trying different values for load-base, but that didn't work.  I also
>>>   tried writing a pure iso9660 format CD.  That worked a little better.
>>>   I can get the computer to read the CD and load OFWBOOT.XCF, but it
>>>   always stops after this:
>>>
>>>	0 > boot ide1/disk@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF NETBSD.MAC
>>>	loader:  loading XCOFF
>>>	tsize=C1C0 dsize=1500 bsize=1680 entry=600000
>>>	SECTIONS:
>>>	.text    00600000 00600000 0000C1C0 000000E0
>>>	.data    0060D000 0060D000 00001500 0000C2A0
>>>	.bss     0060E500 0060E500 00001608 00000000
>>>	loading .text, done..
>>>	loading .dataCLAIM failed
>
>Boy does that look familiar..
>
>*do* tell when you get any results..... I'm very interested.

Try playing with real-base.  Be prepared for the consequences if it 
doesn't work (may need to remove batteries to reset PRAM).