On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Isobel wrote:

> Hello,
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> I have a G4/AGP/Sawtooth with the ATI128 video card.
> I would like to install netBSD on my computer to see what it is (!).
> To do this, I have bought a ATA/66 hard-drive. (ATABus 2, number 1 is wha=
t
> `Drive Setup' tells me (a MacOS tool...)
> But I'm having trouble with the installation...
> Of course, floppy-booting is not possible, so I tried a ZIP-booting :
> I put `ofwboot.elf', `netbsd', `netbsd.md' and `boot.fs' on a HFS zip dis=
k
> (100 Mo). Then I reboot to OpenFirmware.
> At the `0 >' prompt I type
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>         boot zip:ofwboot.elf
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> It is OK, it starts and then, at the `Boot :' prompt, I type
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>         zip:boot.fs

That works (you get a kernel to boot, which you do)? I'd have expected
zip:netbsd to be the thing to do. Oh well.

> Then the screen changes (still black letters on white background, but the
> font is much bigger). Here is what I read :
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> // blahblah genre Copright California =A91515-2786.
> // ...
> CPU 7400 (revision 207)
> total mem : 128
> available mem : 111
> using 1664 /*comme la biere*/ buffer containing 6656 Kb of memory

Vous avez la version NetBSD "boisson"? :-)

> mainbus0 (root)
> CPU at mainbus0 : 1Mb backside cache
> md0 : internal 2048K iamge area
> bootdevice : unknown
> root filesystem type : ffs
> panic: cnopen : cn_tab->cn_dev =3D=3D NODEV // seems to be the key-moment=
=2E..

Our support for console devices is a bit sketchy on these machines.
Obviously what we are doing is wrong here. :-( But it's not the video
card, it's our lack of understanding about the keyboard hookup.

> syncing disks... done
> dumpsys: TBD
> rebooting
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> the the screens changes to a MacOS one, showinf an MacOS icon in a little
> box in the middle of the screen, and, under it, the MacOS boot-device e.g=
=2E
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>         /pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/@0:9,\\:tbxi

Since NetBSD failed to boot, OF switched to MacOS.

> Here we are, I don't know what to do here. A friend (working on the
> amiga-port) tells me this may be due to the ATI 128 video card, not
> recognize, but he is not sure because of the police change when NetBSD bo=
ot.

Je ne sais pas comment t'aider. Hopefully someone else here can help
you. The problem is in how we test for which keyboard is the console, and
I don't know what to do. :-)

Take care,

Bill