Re: Booting without ofwboot

[Jorge Acereda <jacereda%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:12:02 -0700, Chuck Silvers <chuq%chuq.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:18:33PM +0200, Jorge Acereda wrote:
> 
> > - Has anyone patches to boot directly from OF?
> 
> the problem you saw with booting isn't because you didn't use ofwboot,
> it's because the ofppc port is busted in general.  at least, that was
> true the last time I tried to boot -current on my FirePower box
> (maybe 6 months ago).

I have tested a 2.0RC4 kernel under gdb's simulator and it reaches the
point where it asks for a boot partition. That same kernel booted from
SmartFirmware doesn't produce any output. What is surprising is that
ofwboot seems to work correctly. Did you get any output in the
FirePower?