Re: Installing NetBSD 6.5.1 on a Macbook Pro 1,1 in a dual boot configuration

[Patrick <outside%d26.net@localhost>]

 Hi Greg.

> I have successfully installed 7.0 (beta, over the summer) on a core duo
> (not core2) macbook (not pro), in i386 mode, and on a
>   cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7500  @   
> 2.20GHz, id 0x6fb
> in amd64 mode.
This is certainly reassuring.  I had originally tried to install 7.0 
(final), but the installer flat out crashed, so I stepped back to 6.1.5 
to see if I could get that to work first.

> However, I am pretty sure I had GPT issues and ended up zeroing the 
> disk
> and using an MBR label, perhaps due to what you are reporting.  Running
> fdisk and gpt show on the amd64 system confirms that.   I was just
> trying to use the machine to test building packages under 7, and I
> didn't want to dual-boot, so I didn't worry about the gpt issues.
I'm curious what your partition setup was -- did you have to have a 
standalone partition to hold rEFInd or rEFIt?

> Other than bootblocks, I think netbsd 6 probably and definitely 7 are 
> ok
> with gpt labels.  So you may be able to create a partition for NetBSD
> within OS X, and then boot off usb and manually newfs and unpack setes
> into the dkN wedge that is created from the netbsd gpt partition.
> Probably you can install the gpt bootblocks, but I'm somewhat unclear 
> on
> those.
After much trial and error, I managed to get the above method to work: 
manually unpacking the sets I needed into the dkN wedge.  The current 
challenge lies in the boot process.  Realizing you did not go dual-boot, 
do you have any suggestions on how to install the boot code?  When using 
installboot I've tried:

installboot - /dev/dk3 bootxx_ffsv2

Using rEFInd, a disk shows up in the selector, but when I select it it 
says that no boot volume can be found.