Okay, yet another update. Apparently doing "boot ide0/@0:0" now works
but I haven't really changed anything, except re-doing installboot
exactly as I did before except renaming /ofwboot to /boot. Anyway, I can
boot it manually with this command but it won't boot itself. If it boots
by itself it's a black screen on the powerbook or a grey screen on the
Dell monitor (which I plugged into the vga-out). The other thing is that
when I boot manually with the powerbooks screen it goes dark as soon as
"apm..." shows up in dmesg. 
 So, should I just remove apm support or is there better code in -
current and should I go with that? Booting manually works fine with the
Dell monitor of course. 

Another interesting thing to note is that when i do "dev pmu backlight-
off" it works yet "backlight-on" has no effect. 



On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 09:36 -0500, Chris Tribo wrote:
> If the kernel loaded, you probably need to use the brightness button to 
> bring the backlight back on. The pmu code in 2.0 doesn't handle the 
> brightness control correctly.
> 
> On Feb 21, 2005, at 7:28 AM, Anthony de Almeida Lopes wrote:
> 
> > Okay, I've made some progress. I got it to start booting, but then it
> > flickers for a second and goes black. At first the HD clicks and then
> > nothing.
> >
> > To get this far what i did was, do the firmware patch with SystemDisk,
> > then do "installboot -v -m macppc /dev/rwd0a /bootxx /ofwboot" (these
> > files exist) then I set the load-base and real-base and then used :
> >
> > setenv auto-boot? true
> > setenv boot-device ide0/disk@0:8
> > setenv boot-file netbsd
> > reset-all
> >
> > That got me to the black screen. I considered that maybe the kernel
> > doesn't have the video driver compiled in, but even so, the hd would
> > click a lot more.
> >
> > --Anthony
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 02:40 -0500, Chris Tribo wrote:
> >> Assuming you have the system disk or startup disk nvram patches 
> >> loaded,
> >> adjusted your real base and load base, it should be
> >>
> >> boot ide0/@0:0 for the internal HD or
> >> boot ide1/@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1 for the CDROM
> >>
> >> If you don't see ide0 and ide1 in your devaliases, and a big long 
> >> nvramrc,
> >> the patches are not loaded.
> >>
> >> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Anthony de Almeida Lopes wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi, I'm trying to boot a PowerBook G3 (233mhz, Open Firmware 2.0.1)
> >>> which already has NetBSD installed on it. I just can't figure out the
> >>> right Open Firmware command to do the job. I've tried dozens, but, 
> >>> one
> >>> of the problems is I just don't know what device it's on.
> >>>
> >>> devalias gives:
> >>> ...
> >>> scsi /pci/mac-io/mesh
> >>> sci-int /pci/mac-io/mesh
> >>> ata0 /pci/mac-io/ata0
> >>> ata-int /pci/mac-io/ata0
> >>> ata2 /pci/pccard@13
> >>> ata3 /pci/pccard@13,1
> >>> ata1   /pci/mac-io/media-bay/ata1
> >>> bay-ata1 /pci/mac-io/media-bay/ata1/ata-disk
> >>> atapi1 /pci/mac-io/media-bay/ata1/atapi-disk
> >>> fd /pci/mac-io/media-bay/floppy
> >>> ata4 /pci/mac-io@D/media-bay/ata4
> >>> bay-ata4 /pci/mac-io@D/media-bay/ata4/ata-disk
> >>> atapi4 /pci/mac-io@D/atapi-disk
> >>> fd2 /pci/mac-io@D/media-bay/floppy
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>> So, i can boot to fd2 (floppy drive in the left bay), by using boot
> >>> fd2:,\OFWBOOT.XCF. And that worked just fine to install everything;
> >>> however, I can't boot to what I installed. I double checked and made
> >>> sure that file system wd0a is mountable and everything seems to be
> >>> there. I copied everything from /usr/mdec/ to it's /.
> >>>
> >>> I thought I did 'installboot' correctly, but maybe that's the 
> >>> problem. I
> >>> did: "installboot -m macppc /dev/rwd0a /tmp/bootxx /tmp/boot." Is 
> >>> this
> >>> even correct? I used absolute pathnames, but should I be doing this
> >>> chrooted into the new install?
> >>>
> >>> I've read the macppc install guide repeatedly and the 'ofwboot' man
> >>> page, but I'm still confused.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions? Thank you in advance,
> >>> * Anthony
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>