Subject: Re: beige G3 with second IDE drive
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/23/2003 18:06:38
Christopher Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu> wrote:
>
> You cannot boot in OpenFirmware from a slave device with this
> machine at any ROM revision so far as we know. Classic MacOS *will* boot
> from a slave device if you have a rev B or later ROM IIRC. But if you want
> to boot from OpenFirmware (NetBSD, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) it has to be the
> master on whatever channel.
Ok, so if make the drive the master, is it going to be
setenv boot-device ide0/disk@0:8,ofwboot.xcf
setenv boot-file ide0/disk@0:13,/netbsd
?
I'll give that a run tomorrow, then.
Thanks!
-Jan
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