Hi John,

I had the same problem today with a UMAX Pulsar/S900.

I found that the releng kernel from the October 17 is loading and 
working.

I'm just compiling bash2 from pkgsrc on that machine.

regs Tobias

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:32:32 -0500 (EST), John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm interested in looking at -current on a now local macppc machine, but
> while I can boot the install kernel and do a full install (releng,
> 20031112 build), I cannot boot the current kernel afterwards.
> 
> OF_open bootpath=scsi/sd@0
> read stage 2 blocks: 0123456. done!
> starting stage 2...
> 
>>>  NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.7
>>>  (autobuild@cs20.apochromatic.org, Thu Nov 13 12:45:49 UTC 2003)
> no active package4551004+281616 [224576+197973DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00700
> 
> Open Firmware, 1.0.5
> To continue booting the MacOS type:
> BYE<return>
> To continue booting from the default boot device type:
> BOOT<return>
>  ok
> 0 >
> 
> Is this related to other people's problems with ofwboot.xcf?
> 
> I want to try out -current because I am still seeing otherwise solid
> systems lock up when the amount of backlogged network connections on
> Apache is too high. I wish I could be more specific, but it's hard to
> duplicate locally 30 - 40 Mbps of web traffic and 250 Apache daemons all
> writing simultaneously. My 333 MHz iMac just doesn't seem to be able to do
> it on its own.
> 
> http://www.sixgirls.org/traffic.html
> 
> Also, I might have some more details if I could ever get a macppc machine
> to give me a crash dump. Is anyone willing to try to help me get a
> crashdump clue?
> 
> John Klos
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