On "Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:14:54 +0200", "]G|nk0[" <ginko85%gmail.com@localhost> wrote: >Hello, > >to help you identify my machine, which is an iBook G4 1333MHz, >this is the first output line when I enter OpenFirmware : > >Apple PowerBook6,5 4.8.7f1 BootROM built on 09/23/04 at 16:13:38 Okay, so it's an OF3 machine. >this is my disk ( I hope the text will indent right ) : > >------------------------------------ >Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rwd0c' > #: type name length base ( size ) > 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > 2: Apple_Free 262144 @ 64 (128.0M) > 3: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 156039280 @ 262208 ( 74.4G) > >Device block size=3D512, Number of Blocks=3D156301488 (74.5G) >DeviceType=3D0x0, DeviceId=3D0x0 >------------------------------------ > >in the partition number 2 there is a hfs filesystem with ofwboot.elf and >netbsd_generic_md_.gz taken from a 3.0 install cd. > >I guess the right OpenFirmware command should be : > >boot hd:2,\ofwboot.elf netbsd_generic_md.gz > >the result is : > >can' t OPEN: hd:2,\ofwboot.elf >Can' t open device or file I expect that OF is rejecting hd:2 as it's marked as type Apple_Free (not a partition). What you could try instead is to put the ofwboot* and netbsd* files on the MacOS partition and try a similar command using hd:3 instead. Another item to look at is using ofwboot.xcf instead of ofwboot.elf. At some point ofwboot.xcf became usable on all macppc machines. [...]
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