On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, SUNAGAWA Keiki wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Geoffrey C Kinnel <Geoffrey.Kinnel@bms.com>wrote:
> 
> Geoffrey> My OF boot-device is scsi/sd@4:0 (an external HD
> Geoffrey> at ID 4 on the external SCSI interface).
> 
> >> boot
> >>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.1
> >>> (tsubai@mint.iri.com.jp, Mon May 10 19:46:09 JST 1999)
> >> Booting scsi/sd@4/netbsd
> >> 1856444@0x100000+179560@0x2c53bc
> >>  start=0x100000
> 
> Geoffrey> At this point the machine just sits there--no HD
> Geoffrey> activity, nothing. Is this common problem that I
> Geoffrey> missed the answer to? I have to hit the power
> Geoffrey> switch to recover.
> 
> Did you installed boot block on the disk?  If you used
> sysinst command to install the sets into the disk, it was
> done though...

The boot blocks are there. There's the bit w/ Tsubai's EMail address in
it. :-)

> Geoffrey> One item that may be related: when I did a custom
> Geoffrey> disk partition during install (to use the whole
> Geoffrey> 519 MB disk) it had root, swap, usr and an
> Geoffrey> additional unnamed partition of 519 MB. Is that
> Geoffrey> supposed to happen? I just accepted the suggested
> Geoffrey> sizes for the partitions (32 /, 96 swap, 391
> Geoffrey> /usr).
> 
> It looks fine to me.

Was that extra partition partition the "c" partition? If so, then that is
perfectly ok. That's a representation of the whole disk.

I'm not sure why the boot failed. :-(

Take care,

Bill