Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.6 boot problem: PowerMac beige, OF 2.01f
To: Sylvain Fontaine <sfontaine@hyperchip.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/18/2002 14:23:20
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Sylvain Fontaine wrote:

> I got the CD iso Image, then found a way to make it work with my OF 2.01f,
> then I succeded in booting, but it hangs very soon in the process.
> real-base is F00000
> load-base is 600000
>
> Here the display:
> =============
> console keybord type: ADB
> [ netbsd ELF symbol table not valid ]
> [ no symbol tables formats found ]
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
>     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
>
> NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC_MD) #0: Sun Sep  8 12:49 UTC 2002
>
> autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/macppc/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/macppc
> /compile/GENERIC_MD
> total memory = 256 MB
> avail memory = 227 MB
> using 2048 buffers containing 13208  KB of memory
> (... hangs indefinitely)
>
>
>
> Any Ideas of what I do wrong?

Which iso did you grab? There was a bug in the initial 1.6 release which
would cause this kind of problem.

Can you make your own cd images? There's only one file on the cd (and two
files in the install) which need changing.

Some CD images have the fixes, some don't.

Take care,

Bill