On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:57:54PM -0500, fission wrote:
> Okay, thank you.  =)  Must've missed that one, sorry...
> 
> I did exactly what it said to make a disk bootable - exact same result as
> before (disk w/question mark).  I tried it with 'boot wd0:0' and 'boot
> wd0' both which do the exact same thing.

OpenFirmware doesn't know about NetBSD's names for things. You need to
give it the OF device alias for the first IDE drive, and I don't know
what that is off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure it's *not*
wd0... (and if it is, it'd be of the form wd@0:0).

The fact that fd:0 correlates with fd0 is pure coincidence of
nomenclature (fd being a logical abbreviation of floppy disk).

> Is there any possibility that I could somehow boot the kernel off of the
> floppy drive and have it use my root partition (/dev/wd0a) like in
> Linux/LILO where you go:
> 
> LILO boot: linux root=/dev/hda3 ro

Erm... again, that doesn't make sense in the context of OpenFirmware.

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