While I'm at it I might as well mention that I haven't gotten the machine to
boot yet. I've gone into the archives of last December and March when there was
some discussion of C600s and have done precisly what had been done by those
posting successes to the list.
I went as far as to set up a netbsd/mac68k box toboot from but was then bitten
by the sudden realization that I didn't have onboard ethernet and my NIC didn't
even have an OF ROM(although it is an Asante 10BT PCI and I thought I heard they
did). If I bought a NIC with an OF ROM would this help? or does the NIC have to
be "onboard"? In any event , I've tried everything else I can think of without
succes.
Best Regards,
Adam Russell

Adam Russell wrote:

> 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