At 10:30 AM -0800 2/7/02, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Eric Damien Berna wrote:
>
>>  I've been trying all sorts of other things.  I browsed through the
>>  mailing list for possible solutions, and I found some suggestions for
>>  trying different values for load-base, but that didn't work.  I also
>>  tried writing a pure iso9660 format CD.  That worked a little better.
>>  I can get the computer to read the CD and load OFWBOOT.XCF, but it
>>  always stops after this:
>>
>>	0 > boot ide1/disk@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF NETBSD.MAC
>>	loader:  loading XCOFF
>>	tsize=C1C0 dsize=1500 bsize=1680 entry=600000
>>	SECTIONS:
>>	.text    00600000 00600000 0000C1C0 000000E0
>>	.data    0060D000 0060D000 00001500 0000C2A0
>>	.bss     0060E500 0060E500 00001608 00000000
>>	loading .text, done..
>>	loading .dataCLAIM failed
>
>We figured out the docs are wrong. Set load-base to 640000 and try again.
>We hope for 1.5.3 that 600000 will be fine again.
>
>The problem is that your ofwboot.xcf wants to load at 600000, and we
>learned after the fact that loading off of a file system won't work if the
>program wants to be where load-base is set to.

Thanks for the further suggestion.  I tried it with load-base set to 
640000, and it got a bit further.  It got past "loading .data, 
done.." to "clearing .bss, done.." then on the next line it said 
"CLAIM failed".

In another message I volunteered to be Michael Wolfson's lab 
technician with the OF 2.4 machine.  Maybe we'll figure it out in 
that process.
-- 
Eric Damien Berna
eric@thiel.com