Subject: Re: Beige G3 - Unable to boot install
To: Ben Jansen <netbsd@kristamin.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/17/2002 14:08:34
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Ben Jansen wrote:

> On Wednesday, Dec 11, 2002, at 16:15 US/Pacific, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
> >> Are there different values for these I should try? I've tried
> >> reset-all and doing it over, as well as running boot more than once.
> >> However, subsequent boot attempts without resetting display "CLAIM
> >> failed" upon attempting to load .text.
> >
> > Try load-base of 660000, 650000, or default, and/or real-base of

Actually load-base 660000 and 650000 won't work. While I don't think the
load-base value is the problem, ofwboot.xcf wants to put itself around
640000, so we need load-base out of the way.

> > e00000, or default ("set-default real-base").  If you have really done
> > exactly what MW said to do in the installation instructions then we
> > are kind of guessing.
>
> My procedure:
> 1. reset-all
> 2. setenv *-base
> 3. reset-all
> 4. boot
>
> * load-base 660000 & real-base f00000 doesn't work. (same error at same
> place as previous message).
> * load-base 660000 & real-base e00000 doesn't work. (same error, same
> place)
> * load-base 660000 & real-base default doesn't work (same error, same
> place)
> * load-base 650000 & real-base f00000 doesn't work (same error, same
> place)
> * load-base 650000 & real-base e00000 doesn't work (same error, same
> place)
> * load-base 650000 & real-base default doesn't work (same error, same
> place)
> * load-base default & real-base f00000 doesn't work (same error, same
> place)
> * load-base default & real-base e00000 doesn't work (same error, same
> place)
> * load-base default & real-base default doesn't work (same error, same
> place)
>
> > Please report exactly what does and doesn't work (like you just did).
> > It's good to track these things.
> >
> > This is OF 2.4?
>
> Yep.
>
> > Good luck!  You're really close.  If it does boot then the rest of the
> > install should be routine.
>
> Thanks, and I hope so :-)
>
> > If the variations I listed don't do it then you are probably in some
> > hardware driver area.  Do you have any extra hardware or disks that
> > could be disconnected?  I seem to recall some notes on the model
> > support page that might be relevant.
>
> I had a SCSI Zip and SCSI CD-R; I disconnected both to no avail. The
> only other addition is the Rage 128 card I am using.
>
> Thanks,
> 	Ben
>