Subject: Re: Booting a PowerMac 7200 (progress made since last time !!)
To: Tim Kelly <hockey@dialectronics.com>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Zara?= <remi_zara@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/01/2005 18:10:50
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Le 1 mai 05 =E0 17:04, Tim Kelly a =E9crit :

> On Sun, 1 May 2005 16:37:26 +0200
> R=E9mi Zara <remi_zara@mac.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I should note that the boot is not reliable on my machine. I wonder
>> if the kernel does not get corrupted (even in non-gz mode)
>> sometimes.... I haven't been able yet to reproduce the panic which I
>> sent earlier,  and it does not always stop at the same places.
>>
>
> When I did the OpenBSD to Old World Macs port, I found that erratic
> behavior in the kernel generally indicated a corrupted image in =20
> memory.
> Reading from a file system with OF 1.0.5 is particularly problematic,
> as it has no real knowledge of the file system and just does a raw =20
> read.
> The file has to be contiguous on the disk, which is why for early
> development I recommend doing network booting. While not =20
> eliminating all
> problems, it does reduce them to a manageable level. Once I was =20
> able to
> get the image into memory reliably I was able to find and eliminate
> reproducible problems.

I am netbooting. The kernel is loaded via NFS from a NetBSD 2.0 mac68k.

Regards,

R=E9mi Zara=

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