All --

So I just got a DNARD Shark from a friend, and installed a 2.0 gig IBM
laptop drive in it, then installed the 1.4.2 beta snapshot on it.  The
install worked perfectly, however, I cannot for the life of me get the
machine to boot from the drive.  We've tried every imaginible combination
of things of the form

	boot disk netbsd

at the firmware prompt, but it always responds

	"The attempt to load a boot image failed."

I can boot from the net, drop into a shell, mount /dev/wd0a, and see that
everything is where it should be, so I don't imagine this is a hardware issue.

My friend suspects that the version of Open Firmware requires some specific
feature of the drive, as his is the exact same model with an older ~770 meg
drive, and it boots fine.

Here's the HW info:

Shark (both):		DNard Rev 5
OF (both):		Feb 25, 1998 17:19:25
Drive (won't boot):	IBM DYKA-22160, 2067 M, 4200 cyl, 16 head, 63 sect, 512
byte/sect
			PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, UDMA mode 2
Drive (will boot):	TOSHIBA MK2628FC, 773 M, 1571 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512
bytes/sect
			PIO mode 3, DMA mode 1

The drive seems to be the only difference betwen the two.  I would be
overwhelmingly happy if anyone had an idea as to what was up.  Could there
be a firmware update that would address this?

Thanks for any help.   By the way, I'm pretty much a BSD newbie, so please
be gentle.

tom

----------------- dmesg output follows: -----------------------
real mem  = 33554432
avail mem = 25849856
using 307 buffers containing 1781760 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: SA-110 rev 3 DC enabled IC enabled WB enabled EABT
ofbus0 (root)
ofbus1 at ofbus0 (vlbus)
ofisa0 at ofbus1 (isa)
dma-controller@i00 at ofisa0 not configured
interrupt-controller@i20 at ofisa0 not configured
timer@i40 at ofisa0 not configured
configuration@i15c at ofisa0 not configured
com0 at ofisa0 (serial@i3f8): ns16550a, working fifo
lpt0 at ofisa0 (parallel@i378)
ofbus2 at ofisa0 (8042@i60)
ofisapc0 at ofbus2 (keyboard@)
kbc command: 0
pc0 at ofisapc0: color
mouse@aux at ofbus2 not configured
power@i380 at ofisa0 not configured
ofbus3 at ofisa0 (gpio@i3e0)
eeprom at ofbus3 not configured
ofrtc0 at ofisa0 (rtc@i70): rtc
ofisascr0 at ofisa0 (scr@i24)
scr0 at ofisascr0
com1 at ofisa0 (ir@i2f8): ns16550a, working fifo
cs0 at ofisa0 (ethernet@i300): CRUS,CS8900
cs0: CS8900 rev. F, address 08:00:2b:81:62:11, media UTP
joy0 at ofisa0 (game@i201): ESST,game
joy0: joystick not connected
midi@i330 at ofisa0 not configured
ess0 at ofisa0 (sound@i220): ESST,es1887-codec
ess0: ESS Technology ES1887 [version 0x688b]
ess0: audio1 polled
ess0: audio2 polled
audio0 at ess0: full duplex
opl0 at ess0: model OPL3
midi0 at opl0: <ESS Yamaha OPL3>
wdc0 at ofisa0 (ide@i1f0)
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DYKA-22160>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 2067MB, 4200 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4233600 sectors
microtime bug: ticks = 1353b
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pci at ofbus1 not configured
display@it3b0 at ofbus1 not configured
ofrom0 at ofbus0 (flash@7000000): 0x7000000-0x707ffff
ofrom1 at ofbus0 (romcard@10000000): 0x10000000-0x10ffffff
ipl_bio=ffffbfff ipl_net=ffffbfdf ipl_tty=ffffbf5d ipl_imp=ffffbf5d
ipl_audio=ffffbf5d ipl_imp=ffffbf5d ipl_high=ffffbf5d ipl_serial=ffffbf45
clock: hz=64 stathz = 0 profhz = 0
md0: allocated 1800K (3600 blocks)
root on md0a dumps on md0b