On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:15:43PM -0400, Matthieu Lalonde wrote:
> 0> boot fd:,\OFWBOOT.XCF

What does the 6500 report for its Open Firmware version?  The
6400/200 reports "2.0".

I'm having trouble finding a functional floppy disk, as I said.
I might have to go out and buy one or something...  I'm booting
a revision built by Luke Mewburn, not the standard 1.6, so the text
won't match yours, but this is what I see:

0 > boot fd:,\OFWBOOT.XCF bad partition number, using 0-
OF_open bootpath=fd
read stage 2 blocks: 01234567. done!
starting stage 2...

>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.6
>> (lukem@daedalus, Tue Oct  1 11:32:50 EST 2002)
3722588READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@read text: Input/output error
bad partition number, using 0read header
bad partition number, using 0read header
Boot: 

with
0 > boot fd:0

I don't get that first message about a bad partition number.

I think the READ TIMEOUT messages are due to floppy sector errors.

> now that's where MY problem starts
> I formatted the drive and everything
> I tell it to get the packages from the cd-rom
> device is set to scsi-int/sd@2 (SCSI ID is 2!)
> set the path to /macppc/binary/kernel/

In the installer?  Try setting the device to cd0 or /dev/cd0a or
something like that.  I'll let you know when I get there...  :-)

-allen

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