On 29-Sep-05, at 7:30 PM, admin@agnus.datazap.net wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, admin@agnus.datazap.net wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just did an install of 1.6.2 on a Blue & white G3. I was able to 
>> netboot it without too many problems.
>>
>> To make sure the disk was blank I did:
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0c bs=8k
>>
>> I then used pdisk to partition the drive and hformat to format the 
>> HFS partition.
>>
>> Next, I used newfs on the NetBSD partitions, and then mounted the 
>> root partition on /mnt. Changed to /mnt and untared all the packages.
>>
>> I then copied ofwboot.xcf to /mnt and did:
>> hmount /dev/sd0d
>> hcopy /mnt/ofwboot.xcf :
>>
>> I then tried to reboot the computer, but I could not get it to boot 
>> off the hard drive (I just keep getting errors). The B&W has an 
>> Adaptec 2940 SCSI card. I have checked the open firmware settings and 
>> they are set to:
>>
>> boot-device: bridge/ADPT,2940U2B@3/@0:10,\\:tbxi hd:,\\:tbxi
>> boot-file: ofwboot.xcf
>
> I just wanted to let everyone know that I was able to solve this 
> problem and the computer is now able to boot from the hard drive.
>
> Thanks,
> Al
>
>
Yes but for future reference and others exactly how?


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