On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 07:28:48AM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 09:55:01PM -0500, Tony Asleson wrote: > > I pulled a G5 I had sitting in a closed and followed the docs for > > macppc install. I booted from a CD and did a mbr install. At the end > > I see the installer installs a mp kernel as /bsd. The processor is > > dual core, so makes sense. Everything went fine and I rebooted to the > > Open Firmware ok prompt. When I try to boot /bsd I see the following: > > > > [ using 1322900 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] > > console out [NVDA,Display-B] console in [keyboard], using USB > > using parent NVDA,Parent:: memaddr a2000000, size 20000 : consaddr > > 90020000 : ioaddr a1000000, size 1000000: width 1600 linebytes 2048 > > height 1200 depth 8 > > The addresses that it gets out of openfirmware are beyond the usable memory > of OpenBSD/macppc which is at a 2 GB limit. Perhaps this is why. This is > the memory ceiling: > > 2147483648 bytes, and you have a consaddr of 0x90020000 which is at decimal > 2416050176 bytes offset, which is beyond this ceiling. > > Unless you're dual booting with Mac OS X, I'd take some memory out so that > you're at exactly 2 GB, perhaps openfirmware will give different offsets then? > > This is just my guess, with this. I don't know why single user would work > though...
[..] Just to follow up. Nope that's not why, mine (my consaddr is at 98004000) is high too, I just booted my loud G5. So I apologize for the bad idea. But perhaps checking the RAM is a good idea anyhow. Best Regards, -peter
