port-macppc: Re: Booting from an IDE drive

Subject: Re: Booting from an IDE drive
To: Stephen P. Cravey <cravey@hal-pc.org>
From: Yoshihisa Sugimoto <sugimoto@sums.shiga-med.ac.jp>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/07/1999 02:21:56

At 19:20 -0500 99.6.5, Stephen P. Cravey wrote:
> I've managed to install NetBSD 1.4 on an IDE drive, but the install docs
> make no mention of how to boot from an IDE drive using OF. Any ideas?

It depends on the machine you are working on.
At first, check the device name of IDE disk using "devalias" command.

>boot ide0/disk@0:0
or so on will work. This works on the old G3 MT machine.

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Y. Sugimoto