Hello,

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 what
`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 disk
(100 Mo). Then I reboot to OpenFirmware.
At the `0 >' prompt I type

        boot zip:ofwboot.elf

It is OK, it starts and then, at the `Boot :' prompt, I type

        zip:boot.fs

Then the screen changes (still black letters on white background, but the
font is much bigger). Here is what I read :

----------------------------------------------------------------------
// 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
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...
syncing disks... done
dumpsys: TBD
rebooting
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

        /pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/@0:9,\\:tbxi

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 boot=
.

thankyou all for help.

Samuel HORNUS.

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