I just performed a NetBSD 1.6 install using the NetBSD 1.5.3 ofwboot.xcf 
and the 1.6 Install Kernel as it was suggested by /Joe Laffey /in the 
thread "7300 booting". I used that method since I was also getting the 
READ TIMEOUT errors when booting on the 1.6's boot.fs.

The installation was successful, although I can't boot in it! I used 
installboot -v -m macppc -t ffs /dev/rsd0a bootxx ofwboot which gave the 
following output :

# installboot -v -m macppc -t ffs /dev/rsd0a bootxx ofwboot
File system:                    /dev/rsd0a
File system type:            ffs (blocksize 16384, needswap 0)
Primary bootstrap:        bootxx
Secondary bootstrap:     ofwboot
Bootstrap start sector:    4
Bootstrap byte count:     1764
Bootstrap block table:    118 entries of 16384 bytes available, 4 used: 
 13408  13440  13472  13504
Writing bootstrap
#

In the OpenFirmware I type setenv boot-device scsi-int/sd@0:5  (5 being 
/dev/sd0a) and setenv boot-file netbsd .

When I tell the OF to boot, it says there is "no Bootable HFS partition" 
  ????

I also tried boot fd:,\OFWBOOT.XCF scsi-int/sd@0:5
The bootloader loads but says open-scsi-it/sd@0:5/netbsd: No such file 
or directory

real-base is set to F00000 and load-base 600000.

Here is the pdisk output :
Top level command (? for help): L

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/scsi0.0' (/dev/sda)
 #:                type name        length   base     ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple           63 @ 1
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh       54 @ 64
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh       74 @ 118
 4:           Apple_HFS MacOS         4096 @ 192      (  2.0M)
 5:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 A/UX Root 17151864 @ 4288     (  8.2G)
 6:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Swap        786428 @ 17156156 (384.0M)
 7:          Apple_Free Extra            4 @ 17156152

Help would be greatly appreciated!


Francis