On tirsdag, apr 1, 2003, at 03:33 Europe/Copenhagen, mlanza wrote:

> After successfully installing BSD, I am unable to boot to the OS.  
> Open Firmware begins to boot the partition, gets to starting "stage 2" 
> and the cursor starts spinning but only for a few seconds before it 
> hangs. I have 2 drives in the MAC and tried the install on both and am 
> getting the same problem with whichever I try to boot.
>
>
> The system is Power Mac 8600.  I've scoured the FAQ, and other notes 
> and attempted the the various Open Firmware 1.0.5 fixes for drives 
> that don't spin up fast enough (thinking that might have been the 
> issue) but none of the boot-command aliases fixed the problem.
>

How did you install? With sysinst? It sounds a bit like bootstrap isn't 
installed properly.

I've got a 8600 myself, and have no problems booting.

/Daniel