your mail (more stuff on the boot ISO) (fwd)

[Mohan Khurana]

Does anyone have any idea as to why I am unable to boot off a SCSI device,
by telling the bootloader on the CD hd:0 as what it should boot?

I am doing "boot cd:,ofwboot.elf hd:0"

hd seems to be aliased to a disk, so is there some reason why it wouldn't
work? Please read below for more information.

mohan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:29:24 -0500
From: Mike Bush <mi...@ieaccess.com>
To: Mohan Khurana <mkhu...@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: your mail (more stuff on the boot ISO)

I seem to be having the same problem as you. I installed on a scsi drive. I
can mount the drive and see the files if i boot to the CD but I cant boot
the scsi drive! ahh! let me know if you get anywhere.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mohan Khurana" <mkhu...@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "Mike Bush" <mi...@ieaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: your mail (more stuff on the boot ISO)

> For some reason "boot cd:,ofwboot.elf hd:0" doesn't seem to work for me.
I get
> "hd:0", no such file or directory. Perhaps this is an issue with my
> version of OFW on my Mac G3. I can, however, load the kernel on the CD
> and then mount /dev/sd1, where I can see the netbsd kernel file and
> various files that were installed. When I try "devalias" at the prompt
> though, I see that hd is aliased to a disk. Hmmmm...
>
> mohan

[Mohan Khurana]

Nevermind NetBSD fans, I figured it out, I used the exact (and long)
hardware address to the scsi device and then appended /disk:0 to it, which
worked.

Thanks,

mohan