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Another sympton I had was sometimes trying to create a partition would say the map was too small. I'd try the "s" command to grow it, but it wouldn't go beyond 2 entries. All very frustrating. - Jay From: jay.krell%cornell.edu@localhost To: port-macppc%netbsd.org@localhost Subject: RE: me too: invalid memory access early in boot, and macppc partitioning woes Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 12:34:44 +0000 I second machine I tried has the same problem. A third older machine, 500MHz iBook G3 gets past this every time. However something(s) are very off with macppc partitioning. I fiddled with it for hours and no luck. I've installed all of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD many times. Always from optical media, granted, except for Linux and OpenBSD upgrades. That's just to establish my "medium" skill set. I tried three different methods: NetBSD pdisk NetBSD fdisk (I know that's wierd, but I have OpenBSD using MBR on macppc and it seems the easiest to get to boot). MacOSX 10.2 Disk Utility One mistake I did make repeatedly is using /dev/wd0a instead of /dev/wd0c. Some of the problems I see, with "a" and/or "c": Lots of read errors starting up pdisk. pdisk's "i" command always fails with "device is busy" when it goes to write I often get, NOT due to my own editing, but somehow junk labels with a bunch of overlap, that disklabel won't write due to the overlap. If I just have disklabel attempt to write back what it initially read, I get the error that the disklabel checksum or such is out of date, and it doesn't get written. It /seems/ that NetBSD blows away anything I do with Apple Disk Utility. I have gotten setup to proceed all the way through, but I can never boot the result. I tried creating 100MB HFS and the rest UFS with the Apple utility, but NetBSD sysinst seems to remove the HFS partition. I thought I had easily installed NetBSD/macppc years ago, an older versions, but I'm not sure. Lately I only have tried 5.0.1 (I don't want to use a system without $RPATH support.) - Jay From: jay.krell%cornell.edu@localhost To: port-macppc%netbsd.org@localhost Subject: me too: invalid memory access early in boot Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:40:50 +0000 NetBSD 5.0.1 macppc boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf open /netbsd: no such file or directory open /netbsd.gz: no such file or directory 4860575+.... start=9x00... invalid memory access at %srr0: 0000003a %srr1: 00003a00 and drops back to OpenFirmware prompt Runs Mac OSX ok. OpenBSD at least gets further..still installing. (They show up in the GUI multiboot too, nice) Apple Powerbook 3,3 4.5.3f2 BootROM built on 10/25/02 15" 1GHz PowerBook G4 I think "Titanium" I think 768MB RAM -- wierd amount? Same as this: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2009/09/27/msg000876.html http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-port-macppc-22316-%281.6.1-kernels-fail-to-boot-on-a-1GHz-15%22-PowerBook%29-td16600342.html#a16624668 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2006/03/25/0001.html etc. - Jay |