Hi!

Thanks for the replies.
I gonna give it a try with booting from a CD.

greetinx
Thomas

On Mar 30, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Michael wrote:

> Hello,
>
>>> I managed to install NetBSD3.0 on a SCSI-HD attached to a Symbios
>>> Logic  53C810A SCSI adapter in a B&W G3, but now I don't know how to
>>> boot  NetBSD from that disk, because I can't find the proper
>>> openfirmware dev  entry!
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how the dev entry for that disk look like in
>>> openfirmware?
>
>> when it doesn't show up in the OF device tree (in case it's not an
>> OF-enabled HBA, which seems to be so), then you'll have hard times to
>> boot off this HD.
>
> To make things worse many 53c810 based cards seem to have no ROM at 
> all.
>
>> i have had a similar setup in a G3 b&w and used a CF to IDE adapter to
>> boot off from. you could also create a CD, or netboot, or...
>
> Exactly, all he needs is /something/ OF knows about so it can load the
> kernel. After that the kernel's drivers will take over and find the 
> SCSI
> controller.
>
> have fun
> Michael