Re: Noob Question - Can't boot netbsd after installation

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Apr 28, 2008, at 15:58, Joel Parker wrote:
> I created a bootable cd with the macppc image for my G3 400 mac and  
> installed netbsd. I chose the entire disk as I do not want to dual  
> boot but only run netbsd. Also I forgot to make the partition to  
> dump the ofwboot.xcf file into, but I thought I could still boot  
> with the cd image but I can't seem to. Here are the commands I tried :
>
> boot cd:,/ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd
> boot cd:,/ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd.macppc
> and hd0, hd1,hd2, hd3 is there anyway to figure it installed so I  
> can bootstrap it. During the install it said it was installing in  
> wd0 after the mbr. I looked at wd0 after the install and it seemed  
> to think it was there but can't seem to load it.

This should work, I remember having to boot a 1st generation iMac  
like that. Are you sure it's partition 3? Also, does ofwboot.xcf load  
or does it just not find the kernel?

have fun
Michael
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