Hello:

I seem to be having some technical difficulties.  Here's what I have:

PowerMacintosh 7300/180, 80MB RAM
Open Firmware 1.05
It also has a PowerForce G4 450Mhz upgrade card.

I've been able to follow the installation instructions very easily and 
everything has just worked.  I've done everything needed to get me to 
the part where I boot into NetBSD from my hard drive for the first 
time.  I've even patched the Open Firmware like I'm supposed to because 
of some video problems.  Installation went without a hiccup.  It took me 
some time to guess which hard drive name and device alias combination to 
use, but I got that, too.  Now this is happening:

If I type 'boot scsi-int/sd@0:0' then I get a CLAIM failed error.  If I 
set 'scsi-int/sd@0:0' as the default boot device and auto-boot, it gives 
me a DEFAULT CATCH! error and drops me back into Open Firmware on 
restart and continues to give me CLAIM failed errors if I try to 
manually boot it.

In the MacPPC FAQ, it says that both of these errors will either occur 
randomly or there is a problem with the input/output.  Since I had a 
second box handy, I set 'input-device' and 'output-device' to 'ttya' and 
hooked it up through the modem port to my second box and used some 
terminal emulation software.  However, the problem is still not solved.  
I still get the same error messages whenever I try to boot up.  What 
could possibly be causing this?

Thanks,
Chaz McGarvey