Michael said on 30/10/08 00:55:
Hello, On Oct 29, 2008, at 8:06 PM, Chris Wareham wrote:I have been trying to install NetBSD onto a 17" Powerbook (5,7 with 1.67GHz processor). Both 4.0 and 4.0.1 install kernels boot to the point where they have just detected the IDE bus, and then power off. OpenBSD 4.3 does the same, however both Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux boot and install. A build of -current, 4.99.72, booted the install kernel. I was able to setup the disk with pdisk and newfs, then reinstall the sets as per the install guide. However, on attempting to reboot with the installed GENERIC kernel, it hangs at the same point as 4.0 and 4.0.1 power off. I have also tried another hard drive pulled from an old iBook, with the same results, so I'm pretty sure it's a quirk of this Powerbook model rather than a dodgy drive. Has anyone successfully installed any version of NetBSD on this model of Powerbook?Could you please post the INSTALL kernel's dmesg? I suspect PMU weirdness. have fun Michael
Hi, Sorry about the delay in replying. Attached is a zipped copy of the output from ofctl -p, as well as dmesg output from the install kernel. I tried to install 4.99.73 again, and succeeded in reinstalling the sets. I mounted the root partition of my hard drive from the installer, grabbed a binary package of hfsutils, and installed ofwboot.xcf to a HFS formatted partition at the start of the disk. However, attempting to boot from disk failed, with open firmware unable to see the HFS partition. Booting with ofwboot.xcf and the generic kernel from the install CD failed - I passed the -a argument to the kernel in order to get a prompt for root device, but it hung after detecting the hard drive as I described in my first message. Regards, Chris
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