Re: Being asked for root device on root

[David Liana <dliana%frontiernet.net@localhost>]

On 02/07/2012 04:59 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:00:04PM -0500, David Liana wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I got NetBSD installed on an old PowerMac B&W G3. And it boots.
> >
> > Except, I'm being asked to enter in the root disk, for init, etc.
> >
> > Any way around this?
> This means (somehow) the OF string describing the boot device could not
> be matched against the disks found by the kernel. Can you show the part
> of dmesg that describes your root disk (including controllers)?
>
> What is the OF boot device set to?
>
> Martin
boot device was set to:
ultra0:6,\ofwboot.xcf
boot file set to ultra0:8,/netbsd

I have 3 disks (2 ide and one attached to a scsi card).  Installed to 
wd0...  Here is the dmesg info for wd0:

wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <IC35L060AVV207-0>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 38162 MB, 77536 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 78156288 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
wd0(cmdide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA)

Here's my partition info for wd0:
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/wd0c'
 #:                type name              length   base     ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                 63 @ 1
 2:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh             54 @ 64
 3:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh             74 @ 118
 4:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh            512 @ 192
 5:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition      512 @ 704
 6:           Apple_HFS untitled          204800 @ 1216     (100.0M)
 7:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap             2097152 @ 206016   (  1.0G) 
S1  SFS k0  (swap)
 8:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 netbsd_root     75853120 @ 2303168  ( 36.2G) S0 
RUFS k0  /