Re: Current hangs at boot

Tim Rightnour <[email protected]> Tue, 20 May 2008 17:00:06 -0700 (MST)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20-May-2008 Jochen Kunz wrote:
> I can "boot disk" the AIX disk and it
> boots. To boot NetBSD I need "boot disk:3". None of the two disks is
> recognized as bootable by the SMS menue.

boot disk working is a function of having the valid bootblock at partition 0.

The SMS thing is odd.  4.3 is a rather old version of AIX though..  I wonder if
5.1 would have better luck.  It's possible that your firmware is just too old
though.

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