Subject: Re: -current on iBook G4
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Dan LaBell <dan4l-nospam@verizon.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/26/2004 15:27:46
On Thursday, November 25, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Michael wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> Yes, on all counts.  The only hitch is that the kernel does not 
>> default
>> to selecting the "a" partition correctly if there's no "A/UX root".  
>> It
>> ought to default to setting whichever partition is UFS to "a" if
>> there's no explicit "a".  You'll need to "boot -a", figure out which
>> partition NetBSD thinks your UFS partition is, then hard-code it into
>> the kernel.
>
> So, for the records:
> I have 2 HFS+ and one UFS partitions, ofwboot.xcf sits in the first 
> HFS+ one - the MacOS X system partition, NetBSD lives happily in the 
> UFS partition. Booting it is simpler than I thought - just boot 
> hd:,\ofwboot hd:7/netbsd - this loads ofwboot from the first partition 
> and the kernel from the UFS one which happens to be wd0g for NetBSD :)
> ( and yes, root at wd0g is in the kernel config ).
> There's no swap partition, but the iBook has 640MB RAM, I have other 
> machines with less virtual memory, so it's pretty unlikely to really 
> need one anyway.
>
>

Is it just luck that my ibook with 1 HFS+ , and 1 UFS came out as wd0a? 
  Naming it 'a' made no difference?