Re: Hang during boot at adb loading with stock 5.1 kernel on Powerbook2000 Firewire (Pismo)

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Mar 5, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Super Bisquit wrote:

> I'd like to know how you got the kernel booting. Doesn't seem to  
> work too much on the B&W G3.

His Powerbook uses OpenFirmware 3.0 which is orders of magnitude less  
troublesome than the variants used in beige and b&w G3s. I had to  
netboot my beige G3 in order to install NetBSD. To read anything from  
CD you need firmware patches which come with any OSX CD that supports  
powerpc - just boot the CD, if you get to the part where the installer  
complains about your machine not being supported it already installed  
the patches. I tried that with 10.2, .3 and .4 - they all come with  
patches for (apparently) all Power Macs even if the installer doesn't  
support them.
With that you should be able to list the CDs directory in OF which  
should show you exactly how it wants its filenames and such.
You can tell that OF3 was made with OSX in mind, the older variants  
not so much since MacOS 9 used a completely different boot method.

have fun
Michael
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