Nevermind NetBSD fans, I figured it out, I used the exact (and long)
hardware address to the scsi device and then appended /disk:0 to it, which
worked.

Thanks,

mohan

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Mohan Khurana wrote:

> Does anyone have any idea as to why I am unable to boot off a SCSI device,
> by telling the bootloader on the CD hd:0 as what it should boot?
> 
> I am doing "boot cd:,ofwboot.elf hd:0"
> 
> hd seems to be aliased to a disk, so is there some reason why it wouldn't
> work?  Please read below for more information.
> 
> mohan
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:29:24 -0500
> From: Mike Bush <mike@ieaccess.com>
> To: Mohan Khurana <mkhurana@andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: Re: your mail (more stuff on the boot ISO)
> 
> I seem to be having the same problem as you. I installed on a scsi drive. I
> can mount the drive and see the files if i boot to the CD but I cant boot
> the scsi drive! ahh! let me know if you get anywhere.
> 
> Mike
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mohan Khurana" <mkhurana@andrew.cmu.edu>
> To: "Mike Bush" <mike@ieaccess.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:33 PM
> Subject: Re: your mail (more stuff on the boot ISO)
> 
> 
> > For some reason "boot cd:,ofwboot.elf hd:0" doesn't seem to work for me.
> I get
> > "hd:0", no such file or directory.  Perhaps this is an issue with my
> > version of OFW on my Mac G3.  I can, however, load the kernel on the CD
> > and then mount /dev/sd1, where I can see the netbsd kernel file and
> > various files that were installed.  When I try "devalias" at the prompt
> > though, I see that hd is aliased to a disk.  Hmmmm...
> >
> > mohan
> 
>