Subject: Re: Beige G3 booting worries
To: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/02/2006 08:43:28
On 2-Sep-06, at 4:59 AM, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> did anyone manage to boot a -current kernel on a beige G3 ?
> I've been unable to get the firmware to load anything from any  
> NetBSD CD I found here ( 3.0, 2.1 and 1.6.2 ) although an OSX 10.3  
> CD boots fine ( and later complains but - well - it boots )
> So I tried to netboot it - did that on an iMac before which worked  
> fine.
> ofwboot.xcf loads, tries to grab the kernel and immediately bombs  
> back to the OF prompt.
> The only output:
> 3160672DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300 at: %SRR0: 00E08E50 %SRR1  
> 00003070
>
> Is that just me?

This happens on my Performa 6360 with a recent GENERIC kernel (~6MB).  
A smaller custom kernel (< 3MB) works fine.

Cheers,
Jared