NetBSD on OpenFirmware PowerPC systems (NetBSD/ofppc)

Martin Boehme | 21 Mar 2010 14:35

problems with booting IBM RS/6000 B50

Hello all,

I got an old B50 to play with it. Installing NetBSD 5.0.2 via TFTP/NFS
works fine.

But when I want to start it from hard disk, I have no success.
In the list of boot devices I get only the ethernet adapter and
not the disks.

Unfortunately there is no INSTALL file at
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0.2/ofppc/INSTALL.html
(this is the link from http://www.netbsd.org/ports/ofppc/ )

Does anybody have an idea?

Thanks a lot

Martin

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Martin Boehme | 28 Mar 2010 19:01

Re: problems with booting IBM RS/6000 B50

Hello again,

after a lot of searching/trying I got the machine booted.

I wrote a litte Howto for this:
http://www.arbeitsplatzvernichtung-durch-outsourcing.de/marty44/ibmb50.html

Martin

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Frank Wille | 28 Mar 2010 19:04

Re: problems with booting IBM RS/6000 B50

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:01:47 +0200 (CEST)
Martin Boehme <martyausmainz <at> gmx.de> wrote:

> after a lot of searching/trying I got the machine booted.
> 
> I wrote a litte Howto for this:
> http://www.arbeitsplatzvernichtung-durch-outsourcing.de/marty44/ibmb50.html

Thanks. Much appreciated!

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Frank Wille