Okay, I re-did System Disk -> Save, and I now see ide0 et al. but it
still says "can't OPEN: ide0/@0:0" (or whichever device I try). I'll
keep scouting around and re-trying things I did before now that the
patches are loaded for sure. 


On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 02:40 -0500, Chris Tribo wrote:
> Assuming you have the system disk or startup disk nvram patches loaded,
> adjusted your real base and load base, it should be
> 
> boot ide0/@0:0 for the internal HD or
> boot ide1/@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1 for the CDROM
> 
> If you don't see ide0 and ide1 in your devaliases, and a big long nvramrc,
> the patches are not loaded.
> 
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Anthony de Almeida Lopes wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I'm trying to boot a PowerBook G3 (233mhz, Open Firmware 2.0.1)
> > which already has NetBSD installed on it. I just can't figure out the
> > right Open Firmware command to do the job. I've tried dozens, but, one
> > of the problems is I just don't know what device it's on.
> >
> > devalias gives:
> > ...
> > scsi /pci/mac-io/mesh
> > sci-int /pci/mac-io/mesh
> > ata0 /pci/mac-io/ata0
> > ata-int /pci/mac-io/ata0
> > ata2 /pci/pccard@13
> > ata3 /pci/pccard@13,1
> > ata1   /pci/mac-io/media-bay/ata1
> > bay-ata1 /pci/mac-io/media-bay/ata1/ata-disk
> > atapi1 /pci/mac-io/media-bay/ata1/atapi-disk
> > fd /pci/mac-io/media-bay/floppy
> > ata4 /pci/mac-io@D/media-bay/ata4
> > bay-ata4 /pci/mac-io@D/media-bay/ata4/ata-disk
> > atapi4 /pci/mac-io@D/atapi-disk
> > fd2 /pci/mac-io@D/media-bay/floppy
> > ...
> >
> > So, i can boot to fd2 (floppy drive in the left bay), by using boot
> > fd2:,\OFWBOOT.XCF. And that worked just fine to install everything;
> > however, I can't boot to what I installed. I double checked and made
> > sure that file system wd0a is mountable and everything seems to be
> > there. I copied everything from /usr/mdec/ to it's /.
> >
> > I thought I did 'installboot' correctly, but maybe that's the problem. I
> > did: "installboot -m macppc /dev/rwd0a /tmp/bootxx /tmp/boot." Is this
> > even correct? I used absolute pathnames, but should I be doing this
> > chrooted into the new install?
> >
> > I've read the macppc install guide repeatedly and the 'ofwboot' man
> > page, but I'm still confused.
> >
> > Any suggestions? Thank you in advance,
> > * Anthony
> >
> >
>