Subject: Re: Booting from PCI cards
To: Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
From: Michael Wolfson <mw34@cornell.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/23/2000 23:15:17
At 9:44 AM -0500 2/21/00, Dan Winship wrote:

:)The fact that their names are "/pci*" means they don't have OF ROMs.
:)So you can't boot off them. (They should be supported by NetBSD once
:)you boot though, assuming you're running a new enough kernel.)

OK.  Makes sense.

:)> FF83F8A0:   /ADPT,2940UW@F   UltraWide SCSI, Firmware 4.1, HBA version
:1.0.4a91
:)
:)based on things elsewhere in your message,
:)
:)	boot /bandit/ADPT,2940UW@F/@5:0
:)
:)should work. (Actually, you can abbreviate that to "boot
:)/bandit/@f/@5:0".)

Thanks for the suggestions, but they don't work on my 8500.  I've tried
variations of your suggested
boot /bandit/ADPT,2940UW@F/@5:0
and it always says "can't OPEN: <the thing I typed in>"

Any other ideas?  TIA,
  -- MW