arrgh!! third times the charm ...

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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:07:26 +1000 (EST)
From: Iain Dooley <iain@piper.iaindooley.com>
To: port-macppc@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cannot boot from hard drive


not sure why, but it appears my mail was not sent properly. here is the full 
message

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Marco wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What error you got when using the commands ?
>
> The "hd" alias should work fine for the internal hard drive...
> 
> In example, if 2 is the number of the ofwboot.xcf partition and 3 is
> the number of the root partition where the kernel lives, a command
> like this should work ok :
> 
> boot hd:2,\ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd
> 
> (you can use pdisk to get the numbers)

i booted back into netbsd using:

boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf macppc\binary\kernel\netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz

and then did:

ls /dev/

to find that i have several wd0 slices a-p (wd0 is where netbsd installed). i 
tried:

pdisk -l /dev/wd[a-p] #issuing separate commands for each slice

only wd0a and wd0c had listings, and they appear to be identical (i've 
reproduced this manually so excuse me if it's a little messy):

#      type            name       length     base      (size)
1: Apple_partition_map Apple           2  @   1
2: NetBSD/macppc*      NetBSD 2147483647  @   4        (1024.0G)

1024G!! what a great laptop ;-) now if i reboot into OFW, i tried:

boot hd:0,\ofwboot.xcf hd:2,\NetBSD\macppc
boot hd:0,\ofwboot.xcf hd:2,/NetBSD/macppc
boot hd:0,\ofwboot.xcf hd:2,\NetBSD
boot hd:0,\ofwboot.xcf hd:2,/NetBSD

the the same with hd:1 for the second partition. the error i get is:

DISK-LABEL: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1

LOAD-SIZE is too small
  ok
>

i tried partitions [0-9] for the first argument, ie:

boot hd:1,\ofwboot.xcf ...

etc. but in all cases i get the error:

MAC-PARTS: specified partition is not valid can't OPEN: hd:1,ofwboot.xcf

any clues?

cheers

iain

> -Marco
> 
> On 7/2/06, Iain Dooley <iain@iaindooley.com> wrote:
>> Hi, i've succesfully installed netbsd 3.0 on an ibook. This section:
>> 
>> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3-0/200605220000Z/macppc/INSTALL.html#Examples%20of%20Open%20Firmware%20boot%20commands
>> 
>> shows some typical boot commands, but none of them appear to work. i can't
>> boot from the hard drive. when i do devalias there is hd, ide0, ide1,
>> ultra0, ultra1, scsi... all these are used in various ways in the
>> examples, but i can't seem to use dir to get a listing and i don't know
>> how to find out which of these i should use.
>> 
>> if it's any help, netbsd installed on something called wd0.
>> 
>> cheers
>> 
>> iain
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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> 
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