Subject: Re: problem booting 7300 powermac: drive won't spin up
To: Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/01/2002 14:44:50
At 7:31 PM -0700 6/30/02, Russell McManus wrote:
>The problem is that when I boot the machine, the disk drive doesn't
>spin up, and I can't boot from the disk.  Instead if I boot from the
>cd drive using the install cd image, then get to a shell and type
>'reboot', when the machine reboots the hard drive is still spinning,
>and I can boot into NetBSD on the hard drive.  Twisted.

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