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.

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,
>
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