Subject: Re: Blue and white g3 booting issues
To: John <jhu@grex.cyberspace.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/20/2006 12:28:49
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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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