Hello,

I tring to use the netbsd release 3.0.1 - macppccd.iso

I'm sorry but i found this files on the (/) of cdrom. I got deceive me, sorry.

The boot commands that i try is so many as follow below:

boot scsi/sd@3
boot scsi/sd@3:0
boot scsi/sd@3:0 netbsd.macppc
boot scsi/sd@3:0,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc
boot scsi/sd@3:0,ofwboot.xcf;1 netbsd.macppc;1
boot scsi/sd@3:0,\ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc
boot scsi/sd@3:0,\ofwboot.xcf;1 netbsd.macppc;1
boot scsi/sd@3:0,ofwboot.xcf
boot scsi/sd@3:0,ofwboot.xcf;1
boot scsi/sd@3:0,\ofwboot.xcf
boot scsi/sd@3:0,\ofwboot.xcf:1

For this scsi-int/sd@6:0 i use the same syntax.

Yes, my box is a Old World Machine.

I followed the same process that a made the first floppy to do the
second one. But the First work ok without errors and the second
doesn't.

My second Cd-rom ( scsi-int/sd@6:0 ) i was using on my box sun sparc
2, and it's work ok, and booting ok. My first Cd-rom ( scsi/sd@3:0 )
work ok on both mac os 9 and 10 environment.

Thanks a lot,

I appreciate some helps,

regards,

Marcos Luiz Onisto



On 10/28/06, Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu> wrote:
>
> On Oct 27, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Marcos Onisto wrote:
>
> > Another doubt is about the files that there are on the Cd-rom, for
> > exemplo the file afwboot.xcf and netbsd.macppc. There aren't the file
> > afwboot.xcf and netbsd.macppc on the ( / ) structure of the Cd-rom,
> > but i have put in it as arguments on the boot command.
>
> Which exact ISO are you using and what is/are the boot commands you
> are trying? It should be something like boot scsi-int/
> sd@3:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1 (or scsi instead of scsi-int if you're using the
> secondary/external bus, replace 3 with the SCSI ID of the drive)
>
> > When i use the dir command i always have some errors about that not
> > possible open my devices, i follow exactly what the documentation say,
> > but i have problems. I never got to use this command and i don't what
> > is wrong.
>
> The partition number may not be zero depending on which ISO, or it
> may not boot at all due to a bug in the ISO that prevents booting on
> old world machines.
>
> > When i try to boot for floppy disks i have another problem, the first
> > floppy was good without errors, my box eject this and order to the
> > second one. When i put in the second, the floppy unit begin to read it
> > and only stop without show me a error. I already try four floppy
> > disks, but i didn't have a successful.
>
> You may need to format the disks in a Mac floppy drive before they
> are bootable. The already picky floppy drives don't have any sort of
> error handling in Open-Firmware, if there is any error at all, it
> will fail. Or it could be a bug that we just haven't seen yet. What's
> the dir command you are using?
>
> > I don't know exactly what does it mean " May need to disconnect the
> > internal cdrom drive to boot from any device". This part is about my
> > box ( 9500 ) on the page Model Support ( Reason / Remarks ). It mean
> > that a have to disconnect my Cd-rom, if i do it how can i do one boot
> > with my Cd-rom ?
>
> This is probably due to poor SCSI termination or term-power problems.
> I'm fairly certain others have booted these machines by CD-ROM
> before. Check the drive jumpers and settings, make sure only one
> drive is providing termination power to bus and that you have
> otherwise properly appeased the god(s) of SCSI. I should also point
> out that with hardware this old, it is quite possible that your CD-
> ROM/floppy drive/machine/memory is bad.
>
>