Re: problems booting x86 [Re: x86 and ethernet]

Shantonu Sen <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:27:46 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.opendarwin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It looks like you're trying to boot from a CD. Is that correct? Did  
you specify "platform=X86PC"? If not, what happens if you try? If so,  
what happens if you do "platform=ACPI"?

Shantonu

On Oct 19, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Graham J Lee wrote:

> On 19 Oct 2005, at 17:15, Shantonu Sen wrote:
>
>> Nope, most of the debugging is disabled at compile time.
>>
>> You can try booting with boot arguments of:
>> io=0x2000
>>
>
> The device tree is:
> device-tree
>     chosen
>         memory-map
>     rom@0e0000
>     memory
>
> BTW, entering '?' at the boot prompt tells me that hd(31,1) is the  
> location of an Apple HFS+ partition - booting with:
> hd(31,1)mach_kernel rootdevice=hd(31,1)
> gets me as far as before.  Choosing a nonsensical root device does  
> the same, though...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham.