Hey all, I've got a nice new PowerBook G4 15" here, and it's so close to
working it's driving me nuts.  I'm going to try one more thing and then give
up for today.

I was able to run Soren's netbsd-INSTALL using OpenBSD ofwboot, and got the
machine all nicely set up.  Only bothersome thing is I'm using "Apple UFS"
partitions because the new drive setup doesn't seem to know what a/ux is.
By the way, a little hint, ofwboot will crash if you use a gzip'ed kernel.

Trouble is, the actual runtime kernel, netbsd, hangs after the line:

awacs0 at obio0 offset 0x10000: irq 30,1,2

Does anyone have any suggestions?  I'm not adverse to compiling a kernel
myself, I just need a cvs tag and config file to start from.

Gregory


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soren S. Jorvang [mailto:soren@wheel.dk]
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 5:40 PM
> To: dario billo
> Cc: port-macppc@netbsd.org; tsubai@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: boot from macppc
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:06:24PM +0100, dario billo wrote:
> > "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.
> 
> Our ofwboot doesn't work on the new 867 and 1000 MHz Powerbooks.
> 
> The OpenBSD ofwboot has problems too, but it just happens to work
> with certain NetBSD kernels that appear to have certain subtle
> alignment characteristics.
> 
> While the actual problem hasn't been diagnosed, I have put up some
> files that should get you going for now.
> 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/soren/macppc/
> 
> I also suggest that you use recent -current userland snapshots
> along with these files:
> 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/20030218-
> 1.6K/ (base)
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/20030303-
1.6O/ (X11)


-- 
Soren