Subject: Re: Beige G3 booting worries
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/02/2006 12:12:26
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Hello,

On Sep 2, 2006, at 07:43, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> 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.

Hmm, here a 3.0ish ofwboot.xcf Just Worked(tm).

Anyway, wdc at obio seems seriously broken.
Hangs while probing IDE devices and we have a bug report about that.

have fun
Michael
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