Hi Erik, thankyou for your help. Can you send me this file,
netbsd.macppc? I don't have it, I have other files, in the same
directory of ofwboot.xcf, but this no. If you can't have a link where i
can find it? Thank you again, hi

Erik Osheim wrote:

 > Dario,
 >
 > Is the ofwboot.xcf on you hard drive, but the kernel is not? I'm not
 > an expert, but I would say that if you are using ofwboot.xcf, your
 > kernel should be on the same device. Try doing cd:,\ofwboot.xcf
 > instead (I thought OF required the \ character after the hd:, but if
 > it works for you without it then disregard that).
 >
 > Also, I have always passed in the kernel location as an argument to
 > the boot command, i.e. boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc (which is
 > the name of the kernel I think). While you should be able to do it
 > either way, I have always found it to be more reliable.
 >
 > Hope this helps. If these answers are too simplistic then my apologies.
 >
 > -- Erik
 >
 > On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 04:06  PM, dario billo wrote:
 >
 >> Hi all, I've a new powerbook  with openfirmware version 4.5.3f2. I'm
 >> trying to boot from openfirmware with this command:
 >> boot hd:,ofwboot.xcf
 >> This command start a little "boot manager" that request to me the
 >> name of the image file, I've tried with all images that are on cd
 >> (version 1.6) but it respond to me
 >> "decrementer exception at %SRR0: 000000ba    %SRR1: 0000ba00"
 >> and dont start the boot. I don't understand what is it, have you any
 >> idea?
 >>
 >> For information, I've a powerbook 1 GHz, can this to be a problem?
 >> I've read that NetBSD 1.6 isn't tested on this platform, but should 
work.
 >> Thanks for  all
 >>
 >
 >