Subject: followup: Re: wallstreet not wanting to boot NetBSD
To: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
From: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@macfinity.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/27/2005 11:23:26
> thus Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu> spake on Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:51:48 -0400 (EDT):
>
> >
> > You're giving it an OFW v3.x command syntax which is confusing it and
> > causing it to jump to the default boot device which is /AAPL,ROM. There
> > also is no cd devalias on this machine.
> >
> > Be sure you have the nvram patches loaded from SystemDisk, and then:
> >
> > boot ide1/@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1 <-- cdrom
> > boot ide0/@0:0 <-- internal HD
hi,
two more things:
i) when being in OF is it normal that the HD is /not/ spinning?
ii) neither on / of the NetBSD iso nor in it's depths there's a file called NETBSD.MACPPC (or similar)...