Subject: re: Weirdness during installation
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Murray Stokely <murray@osd.bsdi.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/24/2000 11:16:29
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, matthew green wrote:
% this is a "known problem". this also happens on the macppc. for some
% reason if you touch the disk from the prom, netbsd can't use it... so
% what i do is boot my kernel over the network, but mountroot from wd0a..
What do you mean "touch the disk from the prom"? Do you mean you
can't even use `boot <disk-device-string>'? That was working for me
on one of my SCSI disks, but I did run into some trouble trying to
install it on my IDE disk. This should be documented in the INSTALL
document.
- Murray