Hi Michael,

I wrote the pdf-guide. I'd be more than mappy to help you get things going.

On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 07:02AM, Michael Bartosh <mbartosh@4am-media.com> wrote:

>Several months ago (oct) I attempted to install NetBSD on my ANS 700, 
>according to a pdf I found online.
>
>I tried again today- with newly downloaded cd images 
>(http://kelvin.macvaerk.dtu.dk/ans/)
>
>but i'm still getting:
>
>bad partition number, using CLAIM0 failed
>
>..when I try to boot the cd.

OK. First of all: The message 'bad partition number, using 0' is ok. It just tells you, that Open firmware will use partition 0 to boot from, which is what you want anyway. The bad thing is the 'CLAIM failed' message (the two messages are printed without space between them). Whenever you get a 'CLAIM failed' message, you need to reboot the ANS (press the reset button twice to skip the lengthy RAM check).

I suppose you're using an external CD-ROM drive. Yes?

Are you using a serial console? You need to. If you use a keyboard and monitor connected to the ANS things won't work. Check section 3.2 on page 6-7.

I'm using the macppc NetBSD 1.5.2 Image to boot from. I put it into the CD-ROM drive and enter
    boot scsi/sd@3:,\ofwboot.xcf
This will load the boot-loader. I get a prompt
    Boot:
This is the time to swap CD's.

>Nothing special here- I even took out my RAID card in order to make 
>things simpler.

There's no need to take out the card. You need to use an external CD-ROM drive, and the RAID card won't make ny change then.


>That said- the funny thing is, sometimes I can actually boot the mlx 
>image. Usually, I get to boot:, type netbsd.gz, and it kernel panics.  
>Is this due to the fact that the mlx cdrom is ISO ? (contrary to the 
>ppf, I have to use ISO filenames- OFWBOOT.XCF;1, etc).

Try to paste the complete output into the mail. This will certainly help.

Maybe you're right about the ISO-names... I didn't check that.

>...of course, now that I try again, all boots are failing with:
>
>loading .textCLAIM failed

As said above. Once you get a 'CLAIM failed' _nothing_ will work until you've rebooted the ANS.

>So the whole ordeal is pretty inconsistent. The one time I did get 
>booted, I couldn't see any of the hd's (which do show up in OF).
>
>Any ideas?? Firmware requirements? Anyone actually get the OS loaded?

I've installed it onto 2 ANS, and I know 1 more guy who did it. He had no troubles booting it.

Best regards,

Daniel