Re: Installing and booting and OF3 machine from a single empty internal disk, not working

[Marco Trillo <marcotrillo%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

On 10/16/09, Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> o If I install off the CD as per normal (using a 2 gig root disk so I
> know it's inside the first 128 gig), I cannot load the ofwboot.xcf
> from somewhere (network, CD) and then point it at the NetBSD disk and
> ask it to load the kernel. Actually, I can, but the kernel stops and
> asks me for a root device, and at that point the keyboard isn't
> working so I can't type it in.

Actually I think this is another case of a known problem with the B&W G3s.

Try applying the following patch:
<http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2008/07/23/msg000333.html>

Regards
Marco