Re: installing netbsd on a PM g3 B'n'W

Moln?r Gyula <baaananagmail.com> wrote:

> I tried it in a lot of ways, but it's always stop at:
> Boot device: unknown
> Root device: <here froze: After it's stopped here, i
had a launch ,   
> and did a lot of things to kill some time, but after 3
hours it's  
> still here:(>
> Anybody know that what's wrong? My installations based
on
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2004/01/19
/0000.html
> and the install notes.
> Or anybody, who installed ona B'n'W before, can tell me
step-to-step,  
> how he (or she) did it...?

You don't need to use pdisk, since you are not dual-booting,
and OFW
only needs to find the boot block on the disk.  For that use
the ISO
image trick:

    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2002/09/19
/0001.html


Here's my image:

    h
ttp://www.stderr.spb.ru/~uwe/netbsd/g3boot.tar.bz2


and relevant parts of the disklabel demonstrating the
layout:

8 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:  16777216     15780     4.2BSD      0     0     0  
...
 c: 143374744         0     unused      0     0        
...
 h:     15780         0    ISO9660       0             


In OFW I have:

    auto-boot?   true
    boot-command mac-boot
    boot-device	 /pci/pci-bridge/scsi/disk:,ofwboot.xcf

Change the device part (before the colon) in boot-device to
match your
setup.


SY, Uwe
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