Re: iMac netboot issues

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 07:18:38AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> Turns out this works, in the sense that I can boot.  It doesn't work,
> though, in the sense that I can't use the resulting boot, because it
> assumes the console keyboard is ADB (which it isn't; the iMac doesn't
> have ADB as far as I can tell from looking at the connectors - the
> keyboard is USB) and infinite-loops prompting for the root device type.

How old is this iMac?  If it's RevA, it *does* have adb but the connector
is not populated on the mainboard.  We used one of these as a demo system
for NetBSD at tradeshows years ago and IIRC I had to build kernels for it
which omitted adb entirely to get usb console keyboard to work.

Thor