[HELP]: PowerMac G5 and yaboot via network

[kevinfish]

I'm having the same issue with a g4.  Did you ever find the answer?


Chris Bradshaw-3 wrote:
> 
> Hi....
> 
> I have a PowerMac G5 which I am trying to boot via the net (boot
> enet:,yaboot). I have tried the binary of 1.3.13 from
> http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/, and it does seem to try to
> load the yaboot file (I can see this from the TFTP log messages on my
> TFTP server), but it seems to fail with:
> 
> Loading ELF
> 
> RESETing to change Configuration!
> 
> read, unknown word, HERE = ffa35bf8
> 
> It never seems to get as far as loading the yaboot.conf (no log
> messages on TFTP server showing attempted transfer of yaboot.conf).
> This has worked fine on my PMAC G4's for a couple of years now, but I
> just can't seem to get it to work on a G5.....
> 
> I have also tried the yaboot binary from Fedora Core 5 for PPC and I
> get the following message:
> 
> Loading ELF
> 
> RESETing to change Configuration!
> 
> $SETENV, invalid number
> 
> and again it never seems to get as far as loading the yaboot.conf. (no
> log messages on TFTP server showing attempted transfer of
> yaboot.conf).
> 
> I would be grateful if anyone could help me figure out what I might be
> doing wrong.
> 
> Thanx muchly in advance.
> 
> Chris Bradshaw.
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