Subject: Re: I'm having problem booting a PowerBook G3 (Open Firmware 2.0.1)
To: Tim Kelly <hockey@dialectronics.com>
From: Anthony de Almeida Lopes <guerrilla_thought@gmx.de>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/20/2005 04:33:07
Thanks again for responding. I also just discovered that when I reboot
(in any form, whether it be reset-all, shutdown or bye from OF or just
hard reboot/reset) i loost all of the open firmware settings. I'm not
sure why this is, but I think it may have to do with the battery.
Maybe... 

Okay, I'll try -current. 


On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 07:05 -0500, Tim Kelly wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:18:53 -0800
> Anthony de Almeida Lopes <guerrilla_thought@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > So, i can boot to fd2 (floppy drive in the left bay), by using boot
> > fd2:,\OFWBOOT.XCF. And that worked just fine to install everything;
> > however, I can't boot to what I installed. I double checked and made
> > sure that file system wd0a is mountable and everything seems to be
> > there. I copied everything from /usr/mdec/ to it's /. 
> 
> If you've got an install in place, backtrace from wd0 to determine the
> path to devices that match the path in Open Firmware. Is this a
> 2.0 install? Patches to fix problems with the bootpath not being
> properly identified on Powerbooks with two mac-io devices (yours is
> one such PB) did not make it into 2.0 so your task is made more
> difficult. In general, NetBSD/macppc 2.0 is bug prone and you may want
> to reconsider and install -current instead, which fixes many of the
> bugs.
> 
> tim
>