PPC netboot on F-10?

[Tony Breeds]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:48:45AM -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> http://wtogami.livejournal.com/29574.html
> Has anyone successfully netbooted any PPC Mac with F-10?  I tried a G3  
> iMac and G5 tower today with only failure.

For what's it's worth I'll dig up a couple of these machines and see if any
light can be shed on this.  There have been a few problmes with netbooting
"large" (>12Mb) kernels on ppc64.  It seems reasonable that the same problems
could be affecting older machines.

One thing you may like to try is moving open-formware

0 > setenv real-base 2000000
0 > reset-all

Then try the netboot.

But you're right at least a few of the problems are firmware bugs.

Yours Tony

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