On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:46:11AM -0800, Andrew Howard wrote:
> 
> Hi folks:
> 
> I was hoping you might have some advice for a NetBSD (and
> Mac) newbie.  I have been trying to install NetBSD 1.5 on my iMac DV
> (OF 3.0 with latest firmare), but I have been unable to successfully boot
> an installation kernel.  I have tried a number of variations, without
> success.
> 
> Variation 1: As per the installation notes, I tried booting
> the (unzipped) netbsd.ram.gz kernel from an HFS+ partition.  OF seems to
> find the file, but bombs out with a "CLAIM failed" error.  
> 
> Variation 2: As an experiment, I tried copying the netbsd.macppc kernel
> found in the root directory of the iso-cd images to an HFS+ partition.
> This will boot, but it stops and asks me for the root fs.  Since I dont
> have a root fs, I can only assume that this is not an installation
> kernel.  If I continue with this installation, it will bomb out with a
> "panic: no init" error.

This one should have a ramdisk, I believe. Otherwise the CD wouldn't work
either. do you have 'md0' in the list of possible device ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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