Subject: Re: booting the installed NetBSD system?
To: Matthieu Lalonde <mlalonde@ravesw.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/02/2002 11:00:02
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Matthieu Lalonde wrote:

> I finally got to install netbsd.
>
> now I'm trying to set my boot device but i don't really see what opens
> left to try...
> boot ata/ATA-Disk@0:0
> can't OPEN device
>
> ide0/disk@0:0
> does the same.
>
> boot ata/ata-disk@0:0

Then this boot command is the one you want to use.

> results with the info of the OpenFirmware Boot 1.6.... after a couple
> of numbers appear and it shows it's processing for a bit... then it
> stops with / and does nothing.

A better quote of the line would help please.

I suspect that you need to "setenv real-base f00000". Is it set right?

Take care,

Bill