Re: Booting without ofwboot

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 06:18:56PM +0200, Jorge Acereda wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:12:02 -0700, Chuck Silvers <chuq <at> chuq.com> 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?

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.

-Chuck