Hi,

I had the same problem on my 8500, this fixed it:

setenv boot-command catch 5000 ms boot

This will, instead of trying again and again, wait once for 5000 ms and 
then boot.
Adjust the time to suit your needs.

Robert.

On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 02:57 , Robert Leenheer wrote:

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> From: Martijn van Buul <martijnb@stack.nl>
> To: Michael Lorenz <ml@rz.uni-potsdam.de>
> Cc: port-macppc@netbsd.org, Martijn van Buul <martijnb@stack.nl>
> Subject: Re: FAQ: Booting a 7300
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> 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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