Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org> writes:

> 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. :-)

A fried of mine suggested that I might be able to get the drive to spin
up automatically by frobbing a jumper on the drive itself.  This worked!

-russ


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