The load-base number came from a stern warning in the LinuxPPC R4
installation guide that the load base on these machines must be set as such
or else it wouldn't boot. True enough, I recall forgetting to set this and
Linux wouldn't boot. Seeing as I was not getting anywhere in trying to coerce
the machine to boot I got a little "superstitious" and tried to rule out the
old loadbase thing. Hey, after struggling to get the thing to boot a little
"electronic voodoo" came into play >:)

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?
>
> Take care,
>
> Bill