Subject: Fw: Fw: 8600 hangs trying to boot from HD
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: None <jeff@digitalgear.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/30/2002 14:57:52
ouch, I hope my battery isn't dead, I 'll test it.

I didn't try setting boot-file, at one point I tried changing boot-device to
scsi-int/sd@0:0, but that had the same problem.  What's the correct setting
for boot-file?

-Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Wolfson" <michael@nosflow.com>
To: "Xavier HUMBERT" <xavier@xavhome.fr.eu.org>
Cc: <port-macppc@netbsd.org>; <jeff@digitalgear.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: 8600 hangs trying to boot from HD


> At 10:58 PM +0200 4/30/02, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
>
> :)In message <02a201c1f07c$e036e730$2601a8c0@dginternal.com>,
> :) wrote:
> :)
> :)>although now if reboot, it chimes twice, does not boot up
automatically, it
> :)>gives me a flashing question mark on disk, and when I reboot again and
check
> :)>OF, real-base is set back to -1
> :)
> :)You've got all the symptoms : your battery is dead empty.
>
> That, or he has auto-boot? set to true, but has not changed boot-device
and
> boot-file to be the NetBSD devices.  Thus, he resets and it tries to boot
> MacOS since that is still the current setting.
>
>   -- MW
>
>