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Hello,

On Sep 5, 2006, at 23:22, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:

> This is driving me crazy! I got NetBSD/macppc 3.0.1 installed using 
> the boot floppies and the CD on my PowerBook 2400. After the 
> installation completed, I rebooted and now I am trying to figure out 
> what the correct Open Firmware boot-file syntax is. I figured out that 
> the correct boot-device is:
>
> /bandit/ohare/ata/ata-disk@0:0

That looks wrong - what kind of error message do you get?

> I have tried a bunch of boot-file commands like:
>
> /bandit/ohare/ata/ata/disk@0:0,\netbsd
> /bandit/ohare/ata/ata/disk@0:1,\netbsd
> /bandit/ohare/ata/ata/disk@0:2,\netbsd
> etc.

Those won't work. OF can't load the kernel directly, you need to load a 
bootloader first, either from partition zero ( ...disk@0:0 ) or from a 
filesystem OF understands ( ...disk@0:,\ofwboot.xcf )

First figure out the right path. There's probably already a  devalias 
defined for your ide controller. Something like 'boot ide0/@0:0' might 
work.

If not you need to figure out where in the OF tree your disks are.

have fun
Michael
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