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, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:

[...]
> 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?

Regards,

Gheorghe Ardelean