On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Joe Laffey wrote:

> I am having a lot of trouble determining the Open Firmware voodoo for the 
> internal ( IDE it would seem) drive.
>
> I got the system installed on this drive by booting with netboot, placing the 
> install kernel and ofwboot.xcf on another box. This worked fine. I installed 
> via ftp and most everything seemed ok. (I did get one error when it first 
> started formating the disk. I should have written this down.)
>
> Anyway, now I am trying to boot the newly installed system.
>
> I assume I want the partition 0 method, as this is OF 2.0.1.
>
> I tried:
> setenv boot-file netbsd
> setenv boot-device ata0/disk@0:0
>
> But it claims it cannot open that device. I tried ata0/disk@0:1 all the way 
> up to 0:16 as well. When I had the nvramrc patches active I tried ide0 
> instead of ata0.
>
> Any ideas on how to get open firmware to boot this? I wonder if that error I 
> saw had something to do with setting up the bootloader. I may have to run the 
> install again and log that error.

The error I encounter during install is:

command: disklabel -w -r -f /tmp/disktab wd0 'IBM-DYLA-28100'

disklabel: Invalid signature in mbr record 0



I will keep experimenting. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!


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