Hello Daniel,

Apple machines have their CDROM drive usually set to SCSI id 3. The MacOS
needs that to be able to boot from a CD. So you may try sd@3:0.

On 01.10.2002, you wrote:

> On Tuesday, Oct 01, 2002, at 02:19AM, Matthieu Lalonde
> <mlalonde@ravesw.com> wrote: 
>>I'm trying to boot of the 1.6 release iso from an internal scsi drive.
>>SCSI ID 2
>>I was able to go into the OpenFirmware with BootVar. but I can't boot 
>>of the cd.
>> >dev scsi-int/sd@2
>> >show-children show-children , unknown word
>>ok
>>
>> >dir scsi-int/sd@2 can't OPEN the DIR device
>>ok

> Did you try to just boot without 'dir' or 'show-children'?
>  boot scsi-int/sd@2:0,\ofwboot.xcf
> I've had trouble with show-children from time to time, but can always
> boot. 
>>So I tried booting of a floppy with the kernel of 1.6 and the boot 
>>loader of 1.5.3 (i heard 1.6 didn't work well¿)
>> >dev fd:,\ ok
>> >dir fd:,\ -
>>NETBSD     .   008 0 0
>>OFWBOOT .   XCF  020 AB0 D830
>>BNETBSD  .   GZ 020 2 155AC3   ok
>>
>> >boot fd:,\ OFWBOOT.XCF NETBSD.GZ DEFAULR CATCH, code=FFF00300 at 
>>%SRR0: FF80C8AC %RR1: 00009070
>>ok
>>
>>I really have no idea what is wrong
>>BootVar is set as auto-boot off boot on appl/rom input KBD 
>>/bandit/(...) for the video
>>load-base 600000
>>real-base F00000
>>
>>Machine Specs:
>>PowerMac 6500 / 250Mhz
>>64Mb RAM
>>6Gb HD (IDE)
>>SCSI-INT:
>>ID 0 CD-ROM
>>ID 2 CD-R
>>SCSI-EXT:
>>ID 5 ZIP

> If you're using the CD-ROM drive to boot off, you command should be:
>   boot scsi-int/sd@0:0,\ofwboot.xcf
> and not as above with '2:0'.


> Daniel

Tobias