On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 07:10:44PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > Btw, how do you boot from the SCSI CD-ROM ? 
> > I have the following connections in the scsi-int cable:
> > scsi-int => cdrom => disk1 => disk2
> > 
> > `boot cd:0 NETBSD.MACPPC' doesn't seem to work (it goes into MacOS).
> 
> On which SCSI ID is your CDROM? I'll assume 3 for now. Then you'd boot like this:
> boot scsi-int/sd@3:0 netbsd.macppc
> There are no useful devaliases for the CDROM in the S900's firmware. You could make them yourself though.
> 
> later, when you're done installing you'll probably want to set boot-device to scsi-int/sd@0:0 ( assuming your disk is at ID 0 ) and boot-file to the name of your kernel ( usually netbsd )
> 

Do make sure that the drive is ID 0.  I spent several frustrating hours with this
assuming that it was 0 when in fact it was 4.


Grrrr...

cheers

bruce


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