Subject: Re: installing netbsd on a PM g3 B'n'W
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@stderr.spb.ru>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/15/2007 12:06:33
Moln?r Gyula <baaanana@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried it in a lot of ways, but it's always stop at:
> Boot device: unknown
> Root device: <here froze: After it's stopped here, i had a launch ,
> and did a lot of things to kill some time, but after 3 hours it's
> still here:(>
> Anybody know that what's wrong? My installations based on
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2004/01/19/0000.html
> and the install notes.
> Or anybody, who installed ona B'n'W before, can tell me step-to-step,
> how he (or she) did it...?
You don't need to use pdisk, since you are not dual-booting, and OFW
only needs to find the boot block on the disk. For that use the ISO
image trick:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2002/09/19/0001.html
Here's my image:
http://www.stderr.spb.ru/~uwe/netbsd/g3boot.tar.bz2
and relevant parts of the disklabel demonstrating the layout:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
a: 16777216 15780 4.2BSD 0 0 0
...
c: 143374744 0 unused 0 0
...
h: 15780 0 ISO9660 0
In OFW I have:
auto-boot? true
boot-command mac-boot
boot-device /pci/pci-bridge/scsi/disk:,\ofwboot.xcf
Change the device part (before the colon) in boot-device to match your
setup.
SY, Uwe
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