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

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Marco Trillo <marcotrillo%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>

This didn't work. I did the patch last night and built a whole release
from release-5 code, but it still won't boot a regular kernel. I still
need to boot the one hardcoded to wd0a.

Did you have the same problem and then the patch solved it? Which
machine are you using? Mine is this one:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g3/stats/powermac_g3_400_bl.html

I had high hopes for this. Booting a bootloader from another device is
inelegant, but I've had to boot machines worth half as much as my
house this way so it's not unheard of. Having someone do this as a
workaround to a properly configured disk isn't as bad as not being
able to boot off a single disk at all.

Andy