Hello people.

I have Macppc G3 266. 
I tried the following configurationin my OF.
didn't work.. no surprise, it didn't work several times before. :(
I think I need to add 'dev ide0' stuff to OF. how?

any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Igor N. Green

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Yoshihisa Sugimoto wrote:

-->
-->At 4:38 PM -0800 99.11.29, Andy wrote:
-->> So for the time being those who have a beige G3 are stuck?
-->> Or is there some work in progress booter that can be downloaded?
-->> Thx,Andy
-->
-->I could boot NetBSD from internal IDE disk on beige G3 266MT (OF v 2.0f1)
-->with Multibooter 1.0d13 which was a booter used with Rhapsody.
-->
-->The page below shows how-to in Japanese but you would understand how it
-->works on figures.
-->http://members.aol.com/mgssuchino/Ga/
-->Unfortunately Multibotter 1.0d13 had disappeared from the Apple ftp server. ;-(
-->
-->I guess the contents of nvramrc is a key to boot. Looking at nvramrc given
-->by Multibooter 1.0d13, there are some description about 'dev ide0'. This
-->nvramrc may patch buggy Apple's OF.
-->
-->Here is the nvramrc on bootable beige G3. The input and output devices were
-->changed to ttya to get log. Change them to kbd and screen to work.
-->-----------------
-->printenv
-->
-->VARIABLE            CURRENT             DEFAULT
-->little-endian?      false               false
-->real-mode?          false               false
-->auto-boot?          false               true
-->diag-switch?        false               false
-->fcode-debug?        false               false
-->oem-banner?         false               false
-->oem-logo?           false               false
-->use-nvramrc?        true                false
-->real-base           -1                  -1
-->real-size           100000              100000
-->virt-base           -1                  -1
-->virt-size           100000              100000
-->load-base           600000              4000
-->pci-probe-list      -1                  -1
-->screen-#columns     64                  64
-->screen-#rows        28                  28
-->selftest-#megs      0                   0
-->boot-device         ide/disk@0:0        /AAPL,ROM
-->boot-file           netbsd
-->diag-device                             fd:diags
-->diag-file
-->input-device        ttya                kbd
-->output-device       ttya                screen
-->oem-banner
-->oem-logo
-->nvramrc
-->     hex
-->     : $D find-device ;
-->     : $E device-end ;
-->     : $L BLpatch ; : $R BRpatch ;
-->     : $X execute ;
-->     : $p 0 to my-self property ;
-->     : $a " /chosen" $D $p $E ;
-->     10 buffer: km
-->     dev kbd
-->     get-key-map km swap move
-->     $E
-->     : ck 0 do swap dup 3 >> km + c@ 1 rot 7 and << and or loop ;
-->     : bootr 0d word count encode-string " machargs" $a
-->     8 0 1 ck if 0 and else f 29 3d 0 3 ck if 40 or then then
-->     if bye else cr 20 0 do ['] boot catch drop 500 ms loop then ;
-->     dev enet
-->     ' open constant $M
-->     : $M2 $M 710 - $X ;
-->     : rl@ -7D9D40 $X ;
-->     : chstat begin $M2 $M 14f8 - $X -7D6C20 $X rl@ 400 and 0= until ;
-->     : bmstat begin $M2 $M 13F0 - $X rl@ 100 and until ;
-->     : xmt1 get-msecs $M 720 - ! chstat $M A00 - $X bmstat chstat ;
-->     ' xmt1 ' WRITE 10 + l!
-->     62 ' READ 7 - c!
-->     : READ { _p _n ; _a } begin _p _n bead -> _a _a 2+
-->     if _p c@ 80 and 0= else 1 then until _a ;
-->     $E
-->     dev /packages/obp-tftp
-->     : $M over + ['] noop $L ;
-->     ' open E8 $M EC $M F0 $M F4 $M F8 + ' true $L
-->     $E
-->     dev /packages/mac-parts
-->     : $M -7E89E0 $X 8000 alloc-mem 4 -7E89E0 $X ;
-->     ' load 268 - ' $M $L
-->     $E
-->     dev ide0
-->     f3000038 constant $hfr
-->     : $M $hfr rl@ or $hfr rl! 10 ms ;
-->     : ata-enable 4 $M 80 $M 800000 $M 100 $M 20 $M 40 $M ;
-->     : $M2 use-ata-interface ata-enable true ;
-->     : set-device-ID set-drive-select ;
-->     : reset-atapi-bus reset-ata-bus ;
-->     ' open ' $M2 $R
-->     ' enable-bus ' ata-enable $R
-->     ' reset-ata-bus 2c + ' 2 $L
-->     $E
-->     dev ide1
-->     f3000038 constant $hfr
-->     : $M $hfr rl@ or $hfr rl! 10 ms ;
-->     : ata-enable 4 $M 80 $M 800000 $M 100 $M 20 $M 40 $M ;
-->     : $M2 use-ata-interface ata-enable true ;
-->     : set-device-ID set-drive-select ;
-->     : reset-atapi-bus reset-ata-bus ;
-->     ' open ' $M2 $R
-->     ' enable-bus ' ata-enable $R
-->     ' reset-ata-bus 2c + ' 2 $L
-->     $E
-->     dev scsi
-->     : $M ['] do-cmd + ;
-->     : $M2 5 us -5f0 $M $X ;
-->     : $M3 -710 $M f over $X $X ;
-->     -1AC $M ' $M2 $L
-->     100 $M ' $M3 $L
-->     1 124 $M !
-->     $E
-->     unselect-dev
-->boot-command        boot                boot
-->------------------
-->
-->
-->--
-->Yoshihisa Sugimoto, M.D., Ph. D.
-->Medical Information Center / First Department of Medicine
-->Shiga University of Medical Science
-->Seta-Tsukinowa, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2192, Japan
-->