Re: Booting without ofwboot

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

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:02:30 +0200, Jorge Acereda 
<jacereda%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:34:22 -0700, Chuck Silvers <chuq%chuq.com@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 06:18:56PM +0200, Jorge Acereda wrote:
> 
> > as I recall, the FirePower box loaded ofwboot and the kernel, but then
> > the kernel didn't print anything... similar to what you saw on your box.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I spent some time trying to figure out what the problem was, I can now
> reach the point where the kernel asks for a boot partition. It seems
> there's an issue with openfirmware(). My PPC skills are weak, so I
> would appreciate any help in tracking the problem.

More information, it seems that SmartFirmware (the OFW implementation
in the Pegasos II) runs in real-mode. At least the OFW "real-mode?"
value is -1.