Subject: Re: PowerBook 2400 OF HD Boot Syntax
To: Michael <macallan1888@gmail.com>
From: Bryan Vyhmeister <netbsd@bsdjournal.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/06/2006 17:09:39
On Sep 6, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Michael wrote:

> On Sep 6, 2006, at 18:27, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
>
>> I checked the partition and the kernel is there. The only thing  
>> that I just thought of is that the filesystem is FFSv2. Does that  
>> make a difference? I am going to reinstall in a minute to see if  
>> that makes a difference.
>
> That makes all the difference in the world.
> The bootloader doesn't understand FFSv2 so far so the partition you  
> load the kernel from needs to be FFSv1.
> The code to support FFSv2 is supposedly there, someone with the  
> right kind of knowledge just needs to make ofwboot.xcf aware of it.

It did make the difference. It is booting just fine now. Thanks for  
the help. I should have thought of that to begin with.

Bryan