OF and R5 boot problem, opening display /platinum at F8000000... failed

[Paul Barrette]

Dear OF gurus,
I used to run OF in R4 with success, on a 7200.  I don't use auto-boot, and
I added the boot catch line to my boot command.  I can interact with OF
through a serial connection from another mac so I can trouble shoot
properly.  Here is the issue:  R5 boot fine with bootx, but I want to
compile my own optimized kernel and I don't want to boot off my zip all the
time.  I installed the kernel.2.2.6-15apmac.rpm and compiled a nice lean
kernel.  I put it, modules and System.map in place; edited quik.conf, and
ran quik -v.

Then I rebooted to macos and ran bootvars leaving the boot-file field empty
and rebooted:

Here is the OF:
>>>
Open Firmware, 1.0.5
To continue booting the MacOS type:
BYE<return>
To continue booting from the default boot device type:
BOOT<return>
 ok
0 > boot scsi/sd at 0:0 Second-stage QUIK loader
type 'linux' or 'macos'.
boot: linux
Enter the kernel image name as [device:][partno]/path, where partno is a
number from 0 to 16.  Instead of /path you can type [mm-nn] to specify a
range of disk blocks (512B)
boot:
1                        l                        macos
m
You can also type in custom image locations, in the form
{prom_path;}partno/path_to_image or {prom_path;}{partno}[start-end]
boot: 1  [which is the label of my kernel]
Starting at C
opening display /platinum at F8000000... failed
copying OF device tree...done
<<<
The screen is black with a bunch of diagnal lines.  I'm not sure what to
try next?  a new platinumfb.c file?  I had one working from 2.2.2?

Any help would be appreciated.

--
Paul Barrette
Ph.D. candidate, dept. of Classics
System Administrator
McMaster University

umbra loco deerat; qua postquam parte resedit
Dis genitus vates et fila sonantia movit,
umbra loco venit.                  (Ov. Met. 10. 88 ff.)
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~barrette/



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