Michael Lorenz wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> >Yes, i know. I'm asking a FAQ. My newly-acquired 7300 doesn't boot straight
> >away into NetBSD, because the drive hasn't spun up. And I'm asking for
> >hints how to fix it.
> Hmm, have a close look at the harddisk - some ( notably IBM ) drives have a
> jumper labeled "auto spinup" or "delay spinup" and so on. Play with them.

Sorry for the confusion: The thing boots alright - it boots too early,
when the drive hasn't completely powered up *yet*. Once it has completed
spinning up, it'll boot just fine.

The FAQ suggests adding something like:

: wBoot
begin
 boot-device ['] $boot catch drop
 ." -Waiting for boot-device" cr
 d# 500 ms
 key? until
;

to the nvramrc. And it seems to make sense.

Unfortunately, I cannot add this patch, since nvstore complains that the NVRAM
string is too big! 

0 > boot-command begin ['] boot catch 999 ms cr again 

fails for the same reason.

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