Hi,

What error you got when using the commands ?

The "hd" alias should work fine for the internal hard drive...

In example, if 2 is the number of the ofwboot.xcf partition and 3 is
the number of the root partition where the kernel lives, a command
like this should work ok :

boot hd:2,\ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd

(you can use pdisk to get the numbers)

-Marco

On 7/2/06, Iain Dooley <iain@iaindooley.com> wrote:
> Hi, i've succesfully installed netbsd 3.0 on an ibook. This section:
>
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3-0/200605220000Z/macppc/INSTALL.html#Examples%20of%20Open%20Firmware%20boot%20commands
>
> shows some typical boot commands, but none of them appear to work. i can't
> boot from the hard drive. when i do devalias there is hd, ide0, ide1,
> ultra0, ultra1, scsi... all these are used in various ways in the
> examples, but i can't seem to use dir to get a listing and i don't know
> how to find out which of these i should use.
>
> if it's any help, netbsd installed on something called wd0.
>
> cheers
>
> iain
>
>


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