Subject: Re: boot floppy for Umax C600
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: charlie allom <yeled@rubberduck.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/24/2000 22:44:03
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Adam Russell wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I've tried many boot images (including the most recent ones with
> > 1.4.3_ALPHA and the 1.5 snapshot)as well as various bootvar settings and
> > nothing seems to get the machine to boot off the floppy.
> > I'm using bootvar 1.3 with boot-device fd:0
> >                                             boot-comman boot
> >                             and          load-base 100000
> 
> Where did that number come from?


this reminds me.

is a LOAD-BASE 0x6c0000 necessary for booting anything other than the boot
floppy install kernel?

should i take it back down to 4000 boot from my HDD /netbsd ?

c.

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