Subject: Fwd: Installing 1.5 on mac G4 AGP getting me nuts !
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Samuel Hornus <Samuel.Hornus@crans.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/13/2001 18:33:00
> To be fast :
> - Macintosh G4 AGP.
> No ffs filesystem on it, just some HFS+ and some A/UX waiting for
> netbsd...
> launching ofwboot.elf or ofwboot.xcf from ZIP or HD or CD is running
> perfectly.
> but none of these is able to load the 'netbsd.ram.gz' (of NetBSD 1.5
> installation),
> compressed or not. The strange thing is that running
>
> boot zip:netbsd.GENERIC
>
> (under openfirmware (2.4))
>
> runs perfectly ! (but fail to mount root file system, because it
> doesn't exists...)
>
> boot zip:ofwboot.(elf/xcf) netbsd[.ram[.gz]]
>
> doesn't work (error 'can't find file/directory', whereas the
> install-kernel is on the disk just near ofwboot.(xcf/elf))
> any help to install 1.5 on my mac would be greatly appreciated...
> thanks !
>
> --
> Samuel Hornus.
>