At 10:55 PM +0000 1/22/03, Andy Stranks wrote:
>Help!
>
>Yet another guy with a macppc boot problem.
>
>So this is what I have and where I am....
>
>Mac 6500 - Openfirmware 2.0.4 - Upgraded to 15Gb IDE drive - Standard
>everything else
>NetBSD installed after booting from boot.fs created floppy and sets downloaded
>using FTP.
>Majority (13 odd Gb) allocated to / as partition 'a', 384Mb swap as 'b', rest
>as /home as 'g'
>No MacOS anywhere - 8.6 on the drive replaced.
>
>Installer worked very well, better than NetBSD-sparc. Now that the install is
>finished however I can't get NetBSD to boot. I've RTFMed but perhaps I can't
>see the wood from the trees. Can someone point out the correct boot statement
>or boot-device / boot-file variables to use. I have the load-base & real-base
>set & the patch (cpoke x3) set so everything should be set.

One thought (after you know the proper devalias for the IDE) is that 
the OF may not be able to boot from a partition that is not contained 
within the first 8GB of the disk, given the vintage of the machine. 
Hopefully someone else can give a definitive answer on that.

Just a thought,
Mike
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