Re: Booting PowerMac G3 OldWorld....
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:32:21AM -0500, Corey Kovacs wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 June 2002 20:13, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:04:33AM -0500, Corey Kovacs wrote:
> > > I am going to keep trying with quik, one thing I found on the NetBSD page
> > > was that I may need to run SystemDisk to upgrade openfirmware which I
> > > have not done, but am getting ready to soon.
> >
> > That is a little MacOS app, I might have it laying around somewhere if
> > you can't find it. I couldn't really tell if it did anything on my machine.
>
> Yup, found it. Supposedly when you click on the save button it updates your
> OpenFirmware. Only the shadow really knows I guess. Anyway I tried that,
> didn't seem to make a difference. I am booting in right now via BootX 1.2.2.
> I tried setting the load-base this morning to 4000, 60000, 100000, 1000000 as
> suggested by the quik folks. But I'm still using BootX.
>
> Some more information in case anyone else has any ideas...
>
> OpenFirmware version 2.0f1
>
> #cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> cpu : 750
> temperature : 0 C
> clock : 233MHz
> revision : 2.1
> bogomips : 467.44
> zero pages : total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/136 (0%)
> machine : Power Macintosh
> motherboard : AAPL,Gossamer MacRISC
> L2 cache : 512K unified pipelined-syncro-burst
> memory : 64MB
> pmac-generation : OldWorld
>
> #nvsetenv
> little-endian? false
> real-mode? false
> auto-boot? true
> diag-switch? false
> fcode-debug? false
> oem-banner? false
> oem-logo? false
> use-nvramrc? false
> real-base 0xffffffff
> real-size 0x100000
> virt-base 0xffffffff
> virt-size 0x100000
> load-base 0x40000 #I've tried 4000, 40000, 60000, 100000, 1000000...
> pci-probe-list 0xffffffff
> screen-#columns 0x64
> screen-#rows 0x28
> selftest-#megs 0x0
> boot-device /pci/mac-io/ide@20000/ata-disk@0:6
> boot-file
> diag-device fd:diags
> diag-file
> input-device kbd
> output-device screen
> oem-banner
> oem-logo
> nvramrc
> boot-command boot
>
> #quik -v
> Second-stage loader is on /dev/hda6
> Config file is on partition 6
> Writing first-stage QUIK boot block to /dev/hda6
> Making /dev/hda6 bootable (map entry 6)
> Writing block table to boot block on /dev/hda6
>
>
Nice summary. here's one more thing to try. Some disks don't spin up
fast enough. use this for your boot-command to see if it makes a difference:
setenv boot-command begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again
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