Re: Help needed booting NetBSD on Beige G3 Rev1 from the 2nd IDE Channel

[Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean%ww.uni-erlangen.de@localhost>]

Hello,

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Michael wrote:

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> Hello,
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> On Feb 15, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
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> > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
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> > [...]
> >> Now that the installation is finished, I'd like to boot the NetBSD
> >> from
> >> the disk but I don't know how.
> >>
> >> First I tried to see the content of the HFS
> >> partition on the first and the second IDE disks, but
> >>
> >> dir ide0/disk@0:x,\         where x is 0,1,...,10
> >> dir ide1/disk@0:x,\
> >> (pfdisk says that x should be 5 for ide0 and 7 for ide1)
> >> returns the error message can't OPEN the DIR device.
> >>
> >
> > After searching the archives and finding a message from Michael
> > (macallan@ ---
> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2008/05/02/msg000119.html)
> > I have tried the partition 0 boot method but without success (I
> > reinstalled on the disk after dd-ing the first 1000 sectors with 0). I
> > copied ofwboot to the root partition, unmounted the wd1a and used
> > installboot as follows:
> >
> > installboot /dev/rwd1c /usr/mdec/bootxx /ofwboot
> >
> > after rebooting and issuing the following boot command
> > 0 > boot ide1/@0:0 netbsd
> > I get the following error message: "can't OPEN:"
> >
> > I tried the same with the HDD placed on the primary IDE channel with
> > exactly the same results (can't OPEN error message).
> >
> > Any idea why?
>
> Not really, but - DO you have the firmware patches installed? The
> easiest way is to boot an OSX installation CD ( I tried 10.2, 10.3 and
> 10.4 - the latter two don't support the machine but install the patch
> anyway ) - otherwise you won't be able to boot via OF from any IDE
> device.

Yes, I have them. Or at least I used System Disk under MacOS 8.6 and when
rebooting under OpenFirmware I can see a lot of things added to nvramrc
variable. So they should be. Unfortunately I do not have an OSX disk
to test also in this way.

The next thing I am planning to test is to make a small DOS partition and
copy ofwboot.xcf over there. Is ofwboot.xcf searching than for the kernel
or should I specify somehow where the kernel is?

If this fails I will put a SCSI disk inside and try also this way.

Regards,

Gheorghe Ardelean.