Re: Need help with another NetBSD

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:17:15PM -0400, John Klos wrote:
> This is not a NetBSD-Amiga problem, but some of you people seem to really
> know what's going on, so I figured I'd ask here.

Well, as for myself, you're wrong... I have no idea.

> I have been trying desperately to get NetBSD-ppc installed on a blue and
> white G3. While people on their list have tried to help, it seems that
> most of them are stuck where I am. Does anyone know about how these things
> are managed?

Did you try the last release?

> First, in the /macppc/installation/floppy/ directory, there is a file
> called boot.fs, which is supposed to be a bootable floppy. Does anyone
> know how I can access whatever file(s) are on there? I don't have a floppy
> drive, and although I am supposed to be able to boot off of an ISO CD,
> nobody can give me a kernel with the miniroot filesystem.

At least for the 1.5_ALPHA snapshot
(pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/20000620-1.5/), there is a compressed
kernel in the installation subdirectory (netbsd.ram.gz). Un-gzip it, and
boot it via net or whatever. 

> Second, while NetBSD-Amiga asks what device to use for root, NetBSD-ppc,
> when booting from what I assumed to be the install kernel, gets to:
> boot device: <unknown>
> root on md0a dumps on md0b
> 
> and hangs.
> 
> Does anyone know anything about how options get passed to the kernel?

via OpenFirmware, as far as I know.

e.g., you do

ok boot net:netbsd -s

to boot into single user mode via netbooting (but I don't know what netbooting
methods PowerPC MACs implement).

        -is