Hi,

    Could someone point to a discussion of how the load-base and load-size
values are actually used during the boot process. Assumming these are standard
OF and the discussion in the OF spec is complete then that would be fine.

                    kevin

gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:51:21AM -0800, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> > On Open Firmware 1 or 2 systems, use a load-base of 4000 (i.e. the default
> > value) which will be set by typing at the OF prompt:
>
> Uh... my memory is a little hazy, but I'm fairly certain that a
> kernel (on a NetBSD partition, on disk) larger than 3 MBs will not
> boot on an OF 2.0f1 machine with a load-base of 4000.
>
> (Note that macppc GENERIC has been larger than 3 MBs for a while
> now.)
>
> This may be good advice for people booting ISOs, but I don't think
> it's valid booting from an installed disk.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
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