Subject: Re: Bootstrapping a 6400?
To: Peter Eisch <peter@boku.net>
From: Geoffrey C Kinnel <Geoffrey.Kinnel@bms.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/24/2001 14:54:42
Peter Eisch wrote:
>
> I was advised that when I got this 6400 for free that I paid too much for
> it. After burning plenty of cd-r's and plenty of time I'm no further than I
> was before I received the box.
>
> Does anyone have any magic blessings for getting this thing going (booting
> the cdrom) or such?
>
> Whenever I try: boot scsi/sd@3:0,OFWBOOT.XCF NETBSD.RAM (caps or lowercase)
> I simply get "RESETing SCSI bus" and it just hangs.
If, like me, you burned the CD from the iso (1.5.1), then you might
try
boot scsi/sd@3:0,OFWBOOT.XCF NETBSD.MAC
Note: s/RAM/MAC/ since the kernel is called netbsd.macppc on the 1.5.1
iso.
Hope it's that simple.
Geoff