Just to put my two cents in about booting my S900. First of all I always =
start the install from boot floppys. Sometimes it can be problematic =
because floppies go bad. Then I run the install and let Sysinst do the =
partitioing. I usually use an NFS server to load the install sets. In =
open firmware I just boot the floppies like in the instructions, boot =
fd:0. Then to boot the harddrive its something like boot scsi-int/sd@3:0 =
where theh 3 is the id of my Harddrive. This has never failed me and I =
have install quite a few times, and it seems like the easiest way.
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Send me a line if you want any specifics

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From: port-macppc-owner@NetBSD.org on behalf of Michael
Sent: Sat 11/19/2005 9:28 AM
To: D=F6m=F6t=F6r Guly=E1s
Cc: port-macppc@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: Unofficial macppc 2.1 ISO for old world machines



Hello,

[booting the 2.1 CD on an S900]
> Can you elaborate on how you did it? In the last few days, I tried=20
> various flavours of linux, too, and none are working. There must be=20
> some magic trick I am missing :)

Straight from the book:
boot scsi-int/sd@3:,\OFWBOOT.XCF;1 NETBSD.MACPPC;1
This assumes the CDROM is on SCSI ID 3. You may or may not need the ;1 -
if it doesn't work with them try without.
Some factors that may or may not be relevant:
- I didn't change any *-BASE variables
- I have -current on the harddisk, the loader may have messed with
  *-BASE but if boots just fine with factory settings.
- my CDROM drive is a 24x Pioneer jumpered to 512 byte sectors ( I used
  it with a Sun workstation before, never bothered to change the jumper.
  No idea if that matters to OF )

So, my advice is - reset all the *-BASE variables to factory defaults
and then try to boot the CD ( do a reset-all after EACH failed attempt,
OF 1.0.5 is notoriously bad at cleaning up after itself, subsequent boot
commands will /always/ fail )

have fun
Michael