Re: G4 eMac won't netboot

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> What exactly does it (not) do?
> Since you let OF load the kernel directly there is probably a size limit
> somewhere, which may well be specific to the OF version. My G4 for example
> won't netboot anything bigger than ~4MB - it will load the file and then get
> stuck. If that's what's happening to you I'd try a bare bones, as small as
> possible kernel next. Don't even think about booting GENERIC or INSTALL that
> way.

Oh, sorry, I didn't give you the command.

I'm doing this:

boot enet:,ofwboot.xcf

This boots the ofwboot.xcf bootloader from tftp just fine (it seems).

The next messages on the screen look like a NetBSD bootloader, but it
never goes past that. I've also tried doing this, and it also doesn't
work:

boot enet:,ofwboot.xcf netbsd

I get the same error. I can type it out if you need I suppose.

Andy