At 8:33 PM -0500 3/31/03, mlanza wrote:
>After successfully installing BSD, I am unable to boot to the OS. 
>Open Firmware begins to boot the partition, gets to starting "stage 
>2" and the cursor starts spinning but only for a few seconds before 
>it hangs. I have 2 drives in the MAC and tried the install on both 
>and am getting the same problem with whichever I try to boot.
>
>The system is Power Mac 8600.  I've scoured the FAQ, and other notes 
>and attempted the the various Open Firmware 1.0.5 fixes for drives 
>that don't spin up fast enough (thinking that might have been the 
>issue) but none of the boot-command aliases fixed the problem.

Not a help, I know, but if it read stage 1 then the drive is spun up. 
stage 2. . . ?

Maybe not installed properly?  Try playing with the installboot 
program in /usr/mdec?
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