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List:       openbsd-ppc
Subject:    Re: More OpenFirmware
From:       Fred Inklaar <opslag () inklaar ! net>
Date:       2006-03-23 20:25:21
Message-ID: 20060323212521.971686.e507237b () inklaar ! net
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Hi, did you read this text:

> Boot device considerations:
> 
> Modern MacPPC systems have two IDE interfaces (called Ultra and IDE), 
> each of which can have two devices on them (ultra0, ultra1, ide0, 
> ide1). When multiple drives are present in the system, there are 
> limitations of which drives can be configured as the OpenBSD root 
> drive. Invalid configurations will not be able to properly detect 
> which drive is the root drive, so any attempt will either prompt for 
> a root drive or fail.
> 
>     * ultra0 is always a valid root drive.
>     * ultra1 is valid as a root disk, as long as ultra0 is a hard 
> drive, not a non-hard disk ATAPI device).
>     * ide1 (Zip drive bay) is valid as a root disk if no hard drive 
> is located at ultra1,
>     * ide0 (cdrom) is valid as a root drive only if no hard drives 
> are connected to the Ultra bus. 
> 

Try addressing the disk anyway as anyone of the devices above. I had a 
G3 sawtooth that I had to address with ultra1 to get it to work (ultra0 
still contained a MacOSX drive), any of the generic shortcuts like "hd" 
didn't work at all.


Op Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:16:05 -0800 schreef Sky McKinley:
> After reading the NetBSD information on OpenFirmware, I tried to get 
> more information about why I can't boot.
> 
> When I tried to list the contents of my hard drive using
> 
>> dir hd:,\
> 
> I got
> 
> "bad nodePtr  can't OPEN the DIR device".
> 
> Listing the contents of a cdrom worked fine this way.
> 
> I also noticed that the alias "hd" points to a device that doesn't 
> look like any of the other devices I have.  It is
> 
> /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0
> 
> This is not the same as either of the ide devices or the ultra 
> devices, which it seems like it should be.  I have a PowerBook G4 
> 12''.  I'm not sure where to go from here.  Any help would be 
> appreciated.
> 
> - Sky.

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