On Sep 2, 2004, at 10:44 AM, Claes Wallin wrote:

> Peter Bex wrote:
>> After a successful installation (Thanks to Robert Nesto's ofwbot.xcf) 
>> of NetBSD
>
> Where can I find this ofwboot.xcf? I have used the 1.6.2 ofwboot.xcf, 
> but it can only load netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz (2.0), and for some reason I 
> haven't been able to successfully boot off /dev/wd0a with that one.
>
> 2.0 ofwboot.xcf crashes with a decrementer error and 1.6.2 ofwboot.xcf 
> loading netbsd-GENERIC (2.0) crashes with some other error (was it 
> memory-access-something?)
>
> I'm, of course, trying this on an iBook G4.

ftp://murphy.dyndns.org/pub/ofwboot.xcf

This is version 1.7 from an earlier version of NetBSD.  It works fine 
on my B&W G3, my eMac and my PowerBook with -current kernels.  The 1.10 
version of ofwboot.xcf has problems on all my ppc Mac systems.  I'm not 
sure but I think the problem is in the common code that is linked in 
with the macppc ofwboot code.  I don't know what it is though.

I've also been able to get the snag "C" booting to work on my B&W G3, 
but for some reason it doesn't work on the eMac or PowerBook.  However 
they don't drop into booting MacOS but sit there with a blank screen.  
I suspect they have booted NetBSD correctly but for some reason the 
screen output is not enabled.  I tried adding a "'screen' output" 
command in the bootscript file, but that doesn't seem to help.

-bob