Subject: Re: New PowerBooks doesn't boot?
To: Jason R Thorpe , Joel Wilsson <joelw@unix.se>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/09/2002 09:29:47
At 8:48 AM -0800 12/9/02, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:31:02PM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>
>  > I recently acquired a new powerbook, and have trouble booting as
>  > well... I am hoping to look into it a little perhaps tonight or
>  > tomorrow.
>
>So, I haven't been able to determine much so far, except that the
>problem lies within ofwboot itself -- transfer has not yet been
>controlled to the kernel when the fault happens.
>
>I note that the first thing we do in ofwboot is scribble all over
>OFW's BAT settings.  That seems extremely impolite, and may indeed
>cause trouble if we have more BATs (don't the newer G4 CPUs have
>more?)

Missed the start of this thread, but could the problem be something 
Jaguar-related?  I see that the ofwboot in the 1.6 distribution does 
not work with my Jaguar-upgraded TiBook even as well as it used to.
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