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?