Subject: Re: iBook G4 trouble
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@NetBSD.org>
From: Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/29/2004 23:10:42
On Sat, 29 May 2004, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> I'd like to investigate the keyboard problem, but in order to do that, I
> want to netboot, so that I can quickly modify the kernel I use.
>
> It won't work at all.
>
> boot enet:,ofwboot.xcf loads the bootstrap from the TFTP server, but the
> bootstrap is unable to load the kernel.
>
> The machine keeps echanging INFORM/ACK messages with the DHCP server,
> but no TFTP transaction is ever attempted to load the kernel.
>
> I also tried
> boot enet:,ofwboot.xcf enet:,netbsd
>
> No luck.
>
> Any idea?

I had the same problem, and I tracked it to a OF_ call in devopen().
I made an ugly hack to get around this, but did rm my source tree
by mistake... :(

As I remember it, I removed everything before OF_open(), and
hard-coded the fname as "/pci@f4000000/ethernet:192.168.0.200,netbsd".

   /Krister