Greetings,

How did you get the B&W G3 booting NetBSD?  I have tried for months.  First,
it won't recognize any of my internal ide drives.  It will see my internal
scsi drive connected to my Orange Micro card, but I can't figure out how to
boot off it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Salaam (Peace),

Vickie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Lee" <donlee_ppc@icompute.com>
To: <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:10 AM
Subject: Beige G3 - OF 2.4 - can it be done?


> I have a beige G3 w/ OF 2.4 that I have yet to get booting with any
> flavor of NetBSD.  My OF 1.0.5 machines and my B&W G3 (OF 3) boot fine.
> The only way I have managed to boot the OF 2.4 machine is to swap
> out the ROM stick for an older (OF 2.0.1) boot ROM.
>
>
> It appears that regardless of what I try, booting from HFS/IDE, HFS/SCSI,
> CD, netboot, or floppy, nothing gets very far.  I've done best
> with the netboot, where it finds the ofwboot.xcf and then dies with
> CLAIM FAILED.
>
> Most of the examples and other info on the list is aimed at OF 3 machines.
> The OF 2.4 machines appear to be fairly rare. (lucky me. :-p )
>
>
> My question: I'm reading on this list that OF 2.4 can be made to behave.
> Is this verifiably true?  I have gotten indications in the past that this
> machine may be hopeless, but recent list traffic indicates that it can
> be made to work.
>
> ???
>
> -dgl-
>
>