| From: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
| Subject: Re: Getting the thing to boot
| Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:18:26 +0100 (BST)
| Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0608080914320.23502@ugly.precedence.co.uk>

Stephen> difference I can see from pdisk is that the non-working one doesn't have 
Stephen> the "Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh" partition. My concern is that I was 
Stephen> overzealous with deleting partitions.

I don't think it always matters.
I have two occasions both of which boot fine with simple
pdisk setup.

===> Mac mini
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/wd0c'
 #:                type name       length   base      ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple          63 @ 1        
 2:           Apple_HFS ofwboot      8192 @ 64        (  4.0M)
 3:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Root      2097152 @ 8256      (  1.0G) S0 RUFS k0  /
 4:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap      2097152 @ 2105408   (  1.0G) S1  SFS k0  (swap)
 5:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 usr      16777216 @ 4202560   (  8.0G) S2  UFS k0  /usr
 6:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 export  135321712 @ 20979776  ( 64.5G) S2  UFS k0  /usr

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 (74.5G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

===> G4/400 AGP
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/wd0c'
 #:                type name      length   base     ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple         63 @ 1       
 2:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root     1024000 @ 64       (500.0M) S0 RUFS k0  /
 3:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swp      2097152 @ 1024064  (  1.0G) S1  SFS k0  (swap)
 4:           Apple_HFS ofwboot    16784 @ 3121216  (  8.2M)
 5:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 usr      5242880 @ 3138000  (  2.5G) S2  UFS k0  /usr
 6:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Export  11648080 @ 8380880  (  5.6G) S2  UFS k0  /usr

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=20028960 (9.6G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
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Makoto Fujiwara