On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Chris Tribo wrote:

> On Nov 10, 2004, at 9:51 PM, 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.
>> 
>> Thanks,

> You need the system disk or startup disk patches installed into your nvram to 
> boot from the ide drives. Boot device should be ide0/@0:0 not ata0. ide0 and 
> ide1 are the patched versions of ata0 and ata2 IIRC.
>

Hmmm. I just tried this again. Still no go. I have boot-file set to netbsd 
and boot-device ide0/@0:0


I wonder if this has anything to do with the disklabel error about an 
invalid signature in mbr record 0.


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