Hello,

thanks for the quick reply.  after alot of hassles trying to capture
output, 
I think I've got what you were asking for.


> matt> I've just tried the 19991204 install to see if I can
> matt> get it working on my PowerBook G3/233.
> matt> Also, I've found that the installer will only
> matt> recognise the internal IDE hard disk on this machine,
> matt> and not a IDE hard disk plugged into either of the
> matt> media bay's.
> 
> Following two lines are enabled on configuration file of
> both GENERIC and INSTALL.  Do you have startup message?
> 
> mediabay* at obio?
> wdc*    at mediabay? flags 0

total memory = 65536 KB
avail memory = 55552 KB
using 800 buffers containing 3200 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: 512KB backside cache enabled
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x1057 product 0x0002 (rev. 0x40)
obio0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: addr 0xf3000000
mesh0 at obio0 offset 0x10000 irq 12: 50MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at mesh0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
zsc0 at obio0 offset 0x13000: irq 15,16
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 (console)
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
bm0 at obio0 offset 0x11000 irq 42,33: address 00:05:02:c3:81:f6
davbus at obio0 offset 0x14000 not configured
mediabay0 at obio0 offset 0x34 irq 29
wdc0 at mediabay0 offset 0x21000 irq 14
wdc1 at obio0 offset 0x20000 irq 13
wd0 at wdc1 channel 0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA MK2105MAV>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 2067MB, 4200 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4233600 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
adb0 at obio0 offset 0x16000 irq 18: 3 targets
akbd0 at adb0 addr 2: mapped device (195)
wskbd0 at akbd0
adb0 addr 3: relative positioning device (1) not configured
adb0 addr 7:  unsupported
vendor 0x106b product 0x0010 (undefined subclass 0x00, revision 0x01) at
pci0 dev 16 function 0 not configured
ofb0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x4c50
ofb0: 800 x 600, 8bpp
wsdisplay0 at ofb0
vendor 0x104c product 0xac15 (CardBus bridge, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev
19 function 0 not configured
vendor 0x104c product 0xac15 (CardBus bridge, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev
19 function 1 not configured
bm0: short packet len = 0
waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
md0: internal 2048K image area
boot device: <unknown>
root on md0a dumps on md0b
WARNING: clock gained 7 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: ffs
erase ^H, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T
Terminal type? [vt100]


> 
> matt> I still can't however boot from the ide disk.  I'm
> matt> trying: boot ata0:0 and it just returns with default
> matt> catch each time
> 
> Ok, please post the result of following command under Open
> Firmware?
> 
> 0 > devalias
> 0 > dev / ls

devalias

cpu0                /cpus/PowerPC,750
pci1                /pci@80000000
mac-io              /pci/mac-io
pmu                 /pci/mac-io/via-pmu
kbd                 /pci/mac-io/via-pmu/adb/keyboard
mouse               /pci/mac-io/via-pmu/adb/mouse
screen              /pci/ATY,RageLTPro
lower               /pci/pccard@13
upper               /pci/pccard@13,1
ttya                /pci/mac-io/escc/ch-a
ttyb                /pci/mac-io/escc/ch-b
scsi                /pci/mac-io/mesh
scsi-int            /pci/mac-io/mesh
ata0                /pci/mac-io/ata0
ata-int             /pci/mac-io/ata0
ata2                /pci/pccard@13
ata3                /pci/pccard@13,1
ata1                /pci/mac-io/media-bay/ata1
bay-ata1            /pci/mac-io/media-bay/ata1/ata-disk
atapi1              /pci/mac-io/media-bay/ata1/atapi-disk
fd                  /pci/mac-io/media-bay/floppy
ata4                /pci/mac-io@D/media-bay/ata4
bay-ata4            /pci/mac-io@D/media-bay/ata4/ata-disk
atapi4              /pci/mac-io@D/media-bay/ata4/atapi-disk
fd2                 /pci/mac-io@D/media-bay/floppy
enet                /pci/mac-io/bmac

dev / ls

Children of the node:
FF829FE8: /							[AAPL,PowerBook 1998 MacRISC]
FF82B3E0: /cpus@0
FF82B4F8:   /PowerPC,75000
FF82B910:      /l2-cache@0,0
FF82BF88: /chosen@0
FF82C0B8: /memory@0
FF82C200: /openprom@0
FF82C2C0: /AAPL,ROM@FFC00000
FF82C508: /options@0
FF82C9A8: /aliases@0
FF82CF58: /packages@0
FF82CFE0:    /deblocker@0,0
FF82D708:    /disk-label@0,0
FF82DC80:    /obp-tftp@0,0
FF82FEF0:    /mac-files@0,0
FF830610:    /mac-parts@0,0
FF830D70:    /aix-boot@0,0
FF8311C0:    /fat-files@0,0
FF8327D8:    /iso-9600-files@0,0
FF8327D8:    /xcoff-loader@0,0
FF833140:    /terminal-emulator@0,0
FF833A08: /pci@80000000
FF834B40:    /mac-io@10
FF835D18:      /mesh@10000
FF837340:         /sd@0,0
FF838460:         /st@0,0
FF839128:      /escc@13000
FF8392C0:         /ch-a@13020
FF839958:         /ch-b@13000
FF839FF0:      /bmac@11000
FF83B8C0:      /davbus@14000
FF83B9A8:         /sound@0,0
FF83BA98:      /media-bay@34
FF83BDD0:         /floppy@15000
FF83CF90:         /ata1@21000
FF83EE40:      /ata0@20000
FF840CA0:         /disk@0,0
FF840D28:      /via-pmu@16000
FF8429C8:      /adb@0,0
FF842A68:         /keyboard@0,0
FF843348:         /mouse@1,0
FF843608:      /nvram@0,0
FF8437A0:      /rtc@0,0
FF843C68:         /power-mgt@0,0
FF843D58:         /battery@0,0
FF843E08:         /backlight@F300,0
FF843EC8:      /mac-io@D
FF845118:         /escc@13000
FF845208:         /ch-a@13020
FF845858:      /media-bay@34
FF845B68:         /floppy@15000
FF846D00:         /ata4@21000
FF848B60:           /disk@0,0
FF849220:      /ATY,RagLTPro@11
FF84F240:        /pcard@13
FF854628:        /pcard@13,1


> 
> matt> I've also tried booting from the floppy with boot fd:0
> matt> -a and then trying to boot from the hard disk, any
> matt> suggestions?
> 
> boot fd:0 -a
> (to answer some question) netbsd -a

This results with the message "no active package", and the reloads the floppy.


thanks for any help,


Matt.