Howdy,

Chris Tribo was kind enough to provide me with a bootable -current ISO 
image, which I tried out on my two macppc systems.

Relatively no problems on the PowerMacintosh 7300 (aside from abysmal 
mc0 performance, more in the next post).

I couldn't get my PowerBook G3 (FireWire) a.k.a. Pismo to go, though.  
Two separate problems.  ofwboot.xcf wouldn't load a named kernel from 
the CD-ROM and both netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz and netbsd-INSTALL.gz panicked 
when looking for the root filesystem.

So, I guess the question is, does anyone have suggestions or further 
info before I file a PR?

0 > boot ide1:1,\OFWBOOT.XCF;1 ide1:1,/NETBSD_GENERIC_MD.GZ

loading XCOFF

[...]

 >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.10
 >> (root@columbia.dtcc.edu, Sun Oct 24 02:34:08 EDT 2004)
Warning, unexpected short transfer 0/10240
Warning, unexpected short transfer 0/10240
Warning, unexpected short transfer 0/10240
[...]

Copying the files to my hard drive, I could specify a kernel.

netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz produces:
[...]
md0: internal 2048 KB image area
fw0 at fwohci0:
fw0: maximum receive packet (2) is too small
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <HTS548060M9AT00>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 57231 MB, 116280 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 117210240 
sectors
wd:L drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
wd0(wdc0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4 
(Ultra/66) (using
DMA data transfers)(
atapibus0 at atabus1: 2 targets
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 1: <SONY CD-RW/DVD-ROM CRX830E, , JYK1> cdrom 
removable
cd-: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33)
cd0(wdc1:0:1): using PIO mode 4
boot device: <unknown>
trap: kernel read DSI trap @ 0x7c3143a6 by 0x4a3ac4 (DSISR 0x40000000, 
err=14)
panic: trap
Stopped in pid 0.1 (swapper) at 0x3a7edc:     lwz   r0, r1, 0x14
db> trace
0x0080fc20: at 0x306b34
0x0080fcb0: at 0x3aee18
0x0080fd30: kernel DSI read trap @ 0x7c3143a6 by 0x4a3ac4:  srr1=0x9032
             r1=0x80fcf0 cr=0x22000048 xer=0x20000000 ctr=0 
dsisr=0x40000000
0x0080fdf0: at 0xffffffc
0x0080fe00: at 0x2f5880
0x0080fed0: at 0x3c21f4
0x0080fef0: at 0x2cde48
0x0080ff30: at 0x100090
db>


netbsd-INSTALL.gz produces same up to cd0 lines:
[...]
boot device: wd0
trap: kernel read DSI trap @ 0x7c3143a6 by 0x2b2f4c (DSISR) 0x40000000, 
err=14)
panic: trap
syncing disks... done
dumpsys: TBD
rebooting

   -- MW