At 8:48 PM +0200 13/5/2001, Samuel Hornus wrote:
>
>Hmmmm... I'm not sure to be able to wait sooooo long ;-)
>
>The real strange thing is that OpenFirmware boots correctly the
>1.5 GENERIC kernel, but not the 1.5 install kernel (netbsd.ram). 
>Perhaps because the install kernel is too big ?
>I have done a Open Firmware upgrade : here is the top line when 
>booting into OFW :
>
>Apple PowerMac3,1 4.1.8f5 BootROM built...
>
>does that mean it is OpenFirmware version 4.1.8 ?
>(anyway, with this openFirmware, it doesn't boot either...)
>
>Did some people install 1.5 on G4 ? if yes, did you have any problem 
>to overcome ?

Just thought I'd mention I'm having similar problems on
a 733Mhz G4+ (PPC7450) with 512MB RAM and Open Firmware 3 (it
shipped with the latest firmware) but in my case neither kernel
boots. The the 1.5.1 generic kernel fails after the memory tests
with:

method <'usb-kbd-ihandle> not found; ihandle=ffbc8680 phandle=ff8f2430

and in the messages I can see:

Symbol table has bad start address.

The 1.5.1 install kernel fails almost immediately with:
CLAIM failed
...just after displaying that it's a NetBSD kernel.

I'll try the 1.5.2 kernels too.

Matt Browne