Subject: Re: getting a 9500/120 to boot?
To: netbsd-macppc <port-macppc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: James Bilotto <jb13@gomerbud.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/04/2004 08:37:48
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:37:31PM +0100, Riccardo wrote:
> James Bilotto wrote:
[...]
> > I have a 9500/132 and while i've never tried booting it from a cd,
> > i have had a lot of problems booting it from a floppy. I've found
> > that the install floppys will not work with a local console, you
> > have to use a serial console. Also, OF will not boot anything after
> > a "DEFAULT CATCH" or "CLAIM" error, you must reset it with the
> > command "reset-all" for it to work.
> this is not good news...
> since I get the "default catch" at every first attempt!

have you tried seting load-base to 600000 and real-base to F00000?

> I tried both using serial console as switching to video first. Besides,
> on OF 1.0.5 I need to use
> " pci/card_location" output
> " kbd" input
>
> tgo switch to video console. note the space as a first character.

the spaces are supose to be their, but i wouldn't use those commands,
OF seems to get confused about just where the console is. try changing
the default console with output-device and input-device.