starting fresh

David Leimbach leimy2k at mac.com
Tue Dec 9 11:43:20 PST 2003


On Dec 9, 2003, at 12:45 PM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:14:41AM -0600, David Leimbach wrote:
>>
>>> From the OpenFirmware prompt, can you do a directory of /boot/kernel/
>>> ?
>>> i.e.
>>>
>>> 0 > dir cd:,\boot\kernel\
>>> 3447548 12/ 9/ 3 19: 4:40 kernel ok
>>>
>>
>> I get
>>      57344 10/24/ 3 8:58:33 kernel
>> 3447548  10/24/ 3 9: 3:26 kernel.syscons ok
>> 0 >
>
> I'm kind of falling right in the middle of this, so I may restate the
> obvious:
>
> A 57K kernel can't be right. Try loading kernel.syscons instead
> of kernel.

Sure... at one point I had used kernel.syscons and overwritten kernel 
but
that also wouldn't boot.

I am pretty sure that I need to use mkisofs instead of hdiutil from 
apple... I won't
have time to check this until after I am done working my day job.

>
> -- 
>  Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net



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