Subject: Re: installation on a powerbook G4
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Rob Latham <rob@terizla.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/19/2001 11:49:32
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 10:08:33PM -0800, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> At 2:50 PM -0500 11/18/01, Rob Latham wrote:
> 
> :)dir cd:0,\ doesn't work, though it sounds like it's trying.  I get
> :)"method <dir> not found; ihandle=ffbc5f00 phandle=ff8d4e68 DIR method
> :)failed" , though i can "dir hd:9,\" and get a listing.  "dir cd:1,\" and
> :)"dir cd:2,\"  hang OF
> :)
> :)so i can't get a listing... not the end of the world, right? :>
> 
> It is indeed.  Open Firmware uses the same 'dir' routines to list the files
> in a directory as it does to actually load a particular file.  If 'dir'
> isn't finding ofwboot.xcf, then 'boot' isn't.

I'll try again with the "-part" flag to mkisofs and see if that is any
better.


> BTW, is this a new PBG4 or an old one (i.e. PowerBook G4 (Titanium) or
> PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet))?  AFAIK, no one has tried the new model
> yet.

G4 titanium.   

==rob