Henry B. Hotz wrote:

>At 10:04 PM -0600 11/19/00, Bob Nestor wrote:
>>charlie allom wrote:
>>
>> >On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:58:06PM -0600, Bob Nestor wrote:
>> >> the utility for both PPC and Mac68k. I had a report from a 68k user this
>> >> morning that he successfully used it to set up NetBSD partitions on his
>> >> Quadra 650 that were recognized by sysinst and allowed him to complete
>> >> his NetBSD installation.
>> >
>> >What do we enter as the type of partition in pdisk? I'm on a ppc
>> >here and looked thru the pdisk source, I found a UFS/FFS type but
>> >no 4.2BSD ..
>> >
>>I've never tried this, but I was told it works.  I do know the original
>>version of pdisk didn't set the bits in the partition correctly and I
>>re-enabled that code when I added the "V" option to format and dump the
>>Partition Table.  So make sure you have a good backup before trying
>>anything.
>>
>>It's been a long time since I played with pdisk, but I believe if you set
>
>So, if I play with this utility what are the chances that the 
>resulting hard disk will be OF-bootable?
>
>I'd be happy if I could put ofwboot in a Mac HFS partition and then 
>fix ofwboot so it could tell OF which parition it wanted to read the 
>kernel from.  Of course someone has probably tried this already and 
>it won't work because of some bug or other in OF.
>
>BTW I tried this utility on my G4 and it says:
>
>Top level command (? for help): L
>ATAPI - unit not ready
>pdisk: can't open file '/dev/ata0.0'
>ATAPI - unit not ready
>pdisk: can't open file '/dev/ata0.1'
>ATA - couldn't get info
>pdisk: can't open file '/dev/ata1.0'
>ATA - couldn't get info
>pdisk: can't open file '/dev/ata1.1'
>Top level command (? for help):

This is a problem with the 0.73a version of pdisk that I used. The 
problem does not happen in 0.74 of pdisk, but I've been unable to find 
the source for it so I could make the same mods.

If anyone knows where to find the patch or the source of 0.74 pdisk I'd 
be happy to update it.

-bob