Subject: Boot hangs on PPC (Beige, G3, Desktop)
To: None <port-powerpc@NetBSD.org>
From: None <zt@kbfr.org>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 07/14/2004 20:51:00
After installing NetBSD on my Power Mac, and setting the recommended variables
in the Installation Document, the OS hangs during the boot process. It looks
like this:
Open Firmwware 2.0f1
To continue booting the MacOS type:
BYE<return>
To continue booting from the default boot device type:
BOOT<return>
For Open Firmware serial I/O type:
TTYA IO<return>
ok
0 > boot
OF_open bootpath=ide0/disk@0
read stage 2 blocks: 01234567. done!
starting stage 2...
>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.7
>> (autobuild@tgm.netbsd.org, Tue Feb 10 23:44:14 UTC 2004)
Cannot use bootpath
Using boot-device instead
no active package 3872492/
it ends with the cursor under the '/', after it stops spinning.
I would like my Power Mac to boot. Any ideas?
Something I didn't see mentioned else where, but that some of you might want
to know -- when I wrote the NetBSD floppy disk images (boot1.fs and boot2.fs)
using rawrite2 on a windows PC, I would get read errors when trying to use
them to install. When I used dd on a linux machine, they worked fine. I went
through 7 disks thinking they all might of had bad sectors before I tried it
on a linux box.
- ZT