Subject: Re: Mac68k installation
To: Greg Waugh <greg@pol.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/16/1999 13:27:15
Greg Waugh wrote:
> Dear NetBSD team,
>
> I've been trying to install NetBSD 1.3.3 on a Quadra 700. Standard Apple
> machine using the standard Apple/Quantum 540MB internal SCSI ID 0 drive as
> the root. I booted the machine from an external drive (ID4) and performed
> the installation on the internal drive. The internal drive is partitioned
> with a 48MB root (sd0a), a 477M usr (sd0g) and a 48MB swap. I can go into
> Minishell in the installer and everything is there and mounted. But when
> I go to the booter, and say Boot Now I get:
>
> Booting...File "netbsd" not found.
> Could not open kernel "(0,?)netbsd".
>
> The SCSI ID is set to 0, and I've tried putting everything I can think of
> into the Paritition field ('/', 'A', 'a', 'blank'...). Always the same
> error.
Leave it blank. It should find the right one automatically, I believe.
> Please let me know what I need to do to complete this installation.
Did you install a kernel? It sounds like you didn't. Try installing the
netbsd.tgz file...
Later.
Colin