Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netbsd.org> wrote:
> Christopher Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > 	You cannot boot in OpenFirmware from a slave device with this 
> > machine at any ROM revision so far as we know. Classic MacOS *will* boot 
> > from a slave device if you have a rev B or later ROM IIRC. But if you want 
> > to boot from OpenFirmware (NetBSD, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) it has to be the 
> > master on whatever channel.
> 
> Ok, so if make the drive the master, is it going to be
> 
> setenv boot-device ide0/disk@0:8,ofwboot.xcf
> setenv boot-file ide0/disk@0:13,/netbsd

Ok, so after actually setting the jumper to master (d'uh), the thing now
boots, using

setenv boot-device ide0/disk@0:8,ofwboot.xcf
setenv boot-file netbsd
reset-all


Very cool. :)

-Jan

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