On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> 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.
>
> Check the FAQ.

I'm having the same problem, though I only see it with MacOS X (as I
netboot NetBSD). Do we have any other solutions? For me it's not that
we're not waiting long enough to boot the kernel, but that OF isn't doing
what's needed to spin up the drive. I can tell the difference in that
repeated boot attempts don't succeed. Only trying to boot after say
booting MacOS 9 or running NetBSD for a while will MacOS X work.

This problem is why I dropped code to add installboot Apple partitions to
already-partitioned disks; I couldn't get them to test as working. :-)

Take care,

Bill