Hi,

Use pdisk from the installation CD to create the bootstrap partition (
and the NetBSD partitions ).

See this document:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/partitioning.html#pdisk
for an overview of using pdisk.

In example ( for a 50MB size ) :

Command (? for help): C
  First block: 2p
  Length in blocks: 50m
  Name of partition: boot
  Type of partition: Apple_HFS
  Command (? for help):


The first time you boot into NetBSD after installing you should use
the "ofwboot.xcf" which comes with the CD:

0> boot cd:,\macppc\ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd

Then you need to install the "hfsutils" to format the partition.
They're available in NetBSD pkgsrc & packages.

Find the HFS partition:
# disklabel wd0

Format the HFS partition
# hformat /dev/wd0X

Mount the HFS partition
# hmount /dev/wd0X

Copy the ofwboot.xcf file:
# hcopy ofwboot.xcf :

Unmount the HFS partition
# humount /dev/wd0X

Then you can boot from the HD with a command like this:

0> boot hd:2,ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd

If you want to auto-boot NetBSD :

0> setenv boot-device hd:2,\ofwboot.xcf
0> setenv boot-file hd:3,/netbsd
0> setenv boot-command " screen" output boot
0> setenv auto-boot? true
0> reset-all

Hope it helps.

- Marco


The
On 7/5/06, Iain Dooley <iain@iaindooley.com> wrote:
> hello again,
>
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Marco wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > If you want to be able to boot from the hard drive you need to create
> > a small bootstrap partition to host the `ofwboot.xcf' file.
> > That partition need to be on a file system that OpenFirmware
> > understands; such as HFS, HFS+, etc (not FFS).
> >
> > If you have Mac OS installed, you can use the Mac OS partition.
>
> i have already installed NetBSD on the hard drive, now when i try to boot
> without open firmware, i just get a flashing question mark icon.
>
> reading this section of the install guide (which i apparently completely
> disregarded the first time through :-S !!):
>
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3-0/200605220000Z/macppc/INSTALL.html#Partitioning%20your%20hard%20drive%20for%20NetBSD
>
> i see that i am able to create these partitions using pdisk. i presume i'm
> able to do this by booting into the shell from the cd.
>
> i gave it a go, but was a big confused. i deleted existing partitions and
> tried to make a new one at base 4, 200 blocks long (200 blocks being
> 100x1024/512 for the HFS partition) but it told me that the partition was
> not big enough, however it is some 30,000 blocks long.
>
> can anyone tell me the set of commands to use to create these partitions
> and copy ofwboot.xcf in there from the cd?
>
> cheers
>
> iain
>
>
>
> > Once you have created this partition, you`ll have a partition map like
> this:
> >
> > # pdisk /dev/wd0c
> > Edit /dev/wd0c -
> > Command (? for help): p
> >
> > Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/wd0c'
> > #:                type name     length   base     ( size )
> > 1: Apple_partition_map Apple        63 @ 1
> > 2:           Apple_HFS boot     262144 @ 64       (128.0M)
> > 3:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root    4194304 @ 262208   (  2.0G) S0 RUFS k0  /
> > [...]
> >
> > In this example the boot partition is number 2 and the root partiton
> > is number 3.
> >
> > Then the OF command used should be like this one:
> >
> > 0> boot hd:2,\ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd
> >
> > Notice that "/netbsd" is the path to the kernel image you want to boot.
> >
> >
> > -Marco
> >
> > On 7/2/06, Iain Dooley <iain@iaindooley.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Marco wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > What error you got when using the commands ?
> >> .
> >> > The "hd" alias should work fine for the internal hard drive...
> >> >
> >> > In example, if 2 is the number of the ofwboot.xcf partition and 3 is
> >> > the number of the root partition where the kernel lives, a command
> >> > like this should work ok :
> >> >
> >> > boot hd:2,\ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd
> >> >
> >> > (you can use pdisk to get the numbers)
> >>
> >> i booted back into netbsd using:
> >>
> >> boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf macppc\binary\kernel\netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz
> >>
> >> and then did:
> >>
> >> ls /dev/
> >>
> >> to find that i have several wd0 slices a-p (wd0 is where netbsd
> >> installed). i tried:
> >>
> >> pdisk -l /dev/wd[a-p] #issuing separate commands for each slice
> >>
> >> only wd0a and wd0c had listings, and they appear to be identical (i've
> >> reproduced this manually so excuse me if it's a little messy):
> >>
> >> #      type            name       length     base      (size)
> >> 1: Apple_partition_map Apple           2  @   1
> >> 2: NetBSD/macppc*      NetBSD 2147483647  @   4        (1024.0G)
> >>
> >> 1024G!! what a great laptop ;-) now if i reboot into OFW, i tried:
> >>
> >> boot hd:0,\ofwboot.xcf hd:2,\NetBSD\macppc
> >> boot hd:0,\ofwboot.xcf hd:2,/NetBSD/macppc
> >> boot hd:0,\ofwboot.xcf hd:2,\NetBSD
> >> boot hd:0,\ofwboot.xcf hd:2,/NetBSD
> >>
> >> the the same with hd:1 for the second partition. the error i get is:
> >>
> >> DISK-LABEL: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1
> >>
> >> LOAD-SIZE is too small
> >>   ok
> >> >
> >>
> >> i tried partitions [0-9] for the first argument, ie:
> >>
> >> boot hd:1,\ofwboot.xcf ...
> >>
> >> etc. but in all cases i get the error:
> >>
> >> MAC-PARTS: specified partition is not valid can't OPEN: hd:1,ofwboot.xcf
> >>
> >> any clues?
> >>
> >> cheers
> >>
> >> iain
> >>
> >> > -Marco
> >> >
> >> > On 7/2/06, Iain Dooley <iain@iaindooley.com> wrote:
> >> >> Hi, i've succesfully installed netbsd 3.0 on an ibook. This section:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3-0/200605220000Z/macppc/INSTALL.html#Examples%20of%20Open%20Firmware%20boot%20commands
> >> >>
> >> >> shows some typical boot commands, but none of them appear to work. i
> >> can't
> >> >> boot from the hard drive. when i do devalias there is hd, ide0, ide1,
> >> >> ultra0, ultra1, scsi... all these are used in various ways in the
> >> >> examples, but i can't seem to use dir to get a listing and i don't
> know
> >> >> how to find out which of these i should use.
> >> >>
> >> >> if it's any help, netbsd installed on something called wd0.
> >> >>
> >> >> cheers
> >> >>
> >> >> iain
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
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