On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:55:27 -0700 Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote: [...] > I netbooted the OS again to try pdisk on the disk, it says this: [...] > Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/wd0c' > #: type name length base ( size ) > 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 2 @ 1 > 2: NetBSD/macppc*NetBSD 2147483647 @ 4 (1024.0G) > OF 3 needs a partition of type Apple_Boot in order to be able to load ofwboot.xcf from the disk. And all that partition needs to contain is ofwboot.xcf. You'll need to use pdisk to repartition the disk, and make it so that partition 2 is Apple_Boot (making it the default 800kB is sufficient). The rest of the disk can be divided into various NetBSD partitions. More detail is in the install notes in the sections covering OF 3. If you're not interested in mucking about with jumping from system to system, you can set this up with your netbooted NetBSD system. Install hfstools on your netbooted system, and use hformat to format the Apple_Boot partition and hcopy to copy ofwboot.xcf onto it. After you've done that and set up your NetBSD partitions (including installation), the boot command will be as the examples in the OF 3 section, probably something like: boot hd:2,\ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd Be aware that under OpenFirmware 3, NetBSD is picky about partition types, and use the types listed in the install notes. In pdisk, the NetBSD partitions need to show up as type Apple_UNIX_SVR2 (for both mountable partitions and swap).
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