What does dev / ls and devalias say?

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Eric Johnson wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> First, thank you in advance for any help and guidance that can be provided.
>
> A few things to note:
> 1) Open Firmware 3
> 2) IDE hard drive
>
> I've read the supported hardware models and am fine there according the
> list.
>
> The hard drive is empty and I think that might be my problem after combing
> thru netbsd FAQ pages and the mailing list archives as I believe and am
> looking for confirmation that I cannot boot NetBSD from a CD-R with Open
> Firmware 3 because the CD-R is a slave device and not a master.
>
> The problem I get is: cannot OPEN cd device
>
> What I did was burned the supported image to CD-R, which does show up as ISO
> 9660. The bootloader, ofwboot.xcf, is on the CD-R in macppc\installaton with
> the kernel in macppc/binary/kernel
>
> I've tried booting the kernel with:
> boot cd:,macppc/installation/ofwboot.xcf
> macppc/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz
>
> This is where I get the cannot find device error.
>
> If I re-alias cd from its long name to say a workable devalias cd
> cd/disk@0:1, and then run a dir command, it also cannot find the device.
>
> Do I need to comb through partitioning and either get OS 9 or OS X installed
> first and then make a HFS+ partition?
>
> Sorry if I am rambling, I am writing this from home trying to recall most of
> what I was trying to do today at work.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
>
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