Fwd: OF boot delay to allow disk to come alive?

[Matthieu Lalonde <matth+netbsd_macppc%mlalonde.net@localhost>]

My bad,

	This technique involves you have a small (1~2MiB is sufficient) HFS  
partition which you will use to start the bootloader. On that  
partition you will add the ofwboot.xcf and create a file called  
bootbsd.of and include the following in it:

---bootbsd.of----------
\ netbsd open-firmware boot command
." hello1" cr
" screen" output
." hello2" cr
boot hd:,\ofwboot.xcf hd:9,/netbsd
----------------------------------

Replace the last line with your boot command. This will usually create  
enough of a delay to wait for the drives to spin up. If the delay is  
not long enough, you'll be able to play with the script to make it  
wait a little longer. This is what worked on my PM9600 and my PM G4  
Digital Audio (the former needed disk spin time and the latter video  
startup time). Later on to setup auto boot use "setenv boot-command  
boot hd:,\bootbsd.of".

Hope this helps,
Matth

On 21-Feb-09, at 9:30 AM, Georg Schwarz wrote:

> Am 21.02.2009 um 14:50 schrieb Matthieu Lalonde:
>
> > Hi Georg, have a look at http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2005/02/28/0014.html 
> >  it might help.
>
>
> Thanks for your reply. However, I don't see in the above posting  
> anything that might apply in my situation. Could you please elaborate?
> Thanks.
>
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