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Hello,

> me.  since the hard drive is on the adaptec controller, the expected
> command is  "boot /pci/pci-bridge/ADTC,2940U2B/disk@0:*:,\ofwboot.xcf
> netbsd" where *  is a partition number from 1 to 9 (i don't know which
> partition the os  resides on so i tried them all). nothing works.

This works /only/ with partitions OF understands, in your case that
should be DOS or HFS ( not sure about HFS though )

> so, wtf am i doing wrong? anyone with the same configuration and can=20
> display their open firmware settings? my next step is to replace the
> dvd  drive and see if that helps with booting from cd.

You can try to install the 'partition 0' loader from NetBSD (
man installboot ) and then use=20
'boot /pci/pci-bridge/ADTC,2940U2B/disk@0:0'

have fun
Michael

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