Re: powerbook install woes

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:26:01AM +0200, Marco Trillo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:07 AM, David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > Installation was a little rough.  I was startled by this error:
> >
> >             Status: Command failed
> >            Command: /usr/sbin/installboot /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx /boot
> >             Hit enter to continue
> >        ----------------------------------
> >        installboot: Need `-B bno' for raw file systems
> >        installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed
> >
> > BTW, I don't know what is at wd0a, but it is not NetBSD's root.  AFAIK,
> > sysinst should not be scribbling on it.  Good thing I had backed up Mac
> > OS X. :-)
> 
> Is this PowerBook an OF 3.x machine ?

Yes.

> In that case the normal sysinst installation procedure won't work
> correctly; the NetBSD partitions should be created manually with the
> pdisk(8) utility and the "update existing installation/copy additional
> sets" option of sysinst should be used to do the installation.

Thanks for the tip.  Just how should I expect for it to fail?  What if
I have created an Apple UFS filesystem with Mac OS X, for use as my
NetBSD root?

Dave

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