Re: Troubleshooting netboot on a PowerMac G4 Cube

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 19:43:22 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 01:29:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I believe that the MD variants are "too big" though,
> > because this machine has 1GB RAM.  Maybe INSTALL's advice about
> > not changing load-base is now obsolete?  printenv shows it as
> > 0x800000 on my machine.
> 
> "Too big" for our bootloader, not physical ram. But load-base
> is a good thing to try and could help here.

My canned advice for this is to try ofwboot.elf instead of ofwboot.xcf
as a kludge (the suffix indicates the format of the ofwboot binary
itself, it's the same code otherwise).

-uwe