On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Joseph Sarkes wrote:

> I mixed up my notes during typing, and the firewire drive failure
> should have been this
> and the following should have been for the ofwboot failure... Sorry

Ahhh... Makes more sense now.

> a -current ofwboot.xcf fails with the following results on my dual 1GHz
> powermac.
>
>
> loading XCOFF
> tsize=d990 dsize=2b0 bsize=25b8 adler32=ffc7d851
>
> sections
> .text 00640000 00640000 0000d990 00000000
> .data 0064e000 0064e000 000002b0 0000da70
> .bss 0064e2b0 0064e2b0 000025b8 00000000
> loading .text, done..
> loading .data, done..
> loading .bss, done..
>  >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.7
>  >> /root@G4mp, Tue Jun 3 20:51:06 EDT 2003)
>
> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=300 at %SRR0:00000000 %SRR1:00083030
                                    ^^^^^^^^
				    as I understand things, this is the pc
				    of the error.

> Then the system is HUNG.

Yeah, when you get a default catch like this, you loose.

For some reason, ofw is jumping off a null pointer. Or ofw isn't passing
the right info to the kernel..

Different versions of ofw work with the same kernel?

Take care,

Bill