Re: Booting original iMac

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Michael wrote:

> I see neither USB nor IDE devices attaching. How long did it sit there? If 
> USB is the problem there might be error messages after a few minutes but I'd 
> guess there's something wrong with the IDE driver :/

Bingo!

I got around to booting a -current kernel and disabled wdc via userconf. 
The machine booted up fully (aside from not having access to local disk
or CD-ROM).

  http://bobdbob.com/~jdbaker/imac-GENERIC-current.txt

The same is true for NetBSD-5.0_STABLE:

  http://bobdbob.com~jdbaker/imac-GENERIC-nb5.txt

OK, so what changed about "wdc* at obio" between -4 and -5?

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