At 11:33 PM -0700 7/1/02, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>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.

Does it *never* get going?  When I've needed wBoot it's cycled about 
5-10 times before the disk worked.
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